Dame
Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE (born 31 October 1950)
is an Iraqi-British architect. She received the
Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 -;the first
woman to do so and the Stirling Prize in 2010
and 2011. Her buildings are distinctively futuristic,
characterized by the "powerful, curving forms
of her elongated structures" with "multiple perspective
points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos
of modern life".

Tomasso
Brothers Fine Art was established in 1993 and
is based at Bardon Hall, Leeds. Dino and Raffaello
are recognised internationally for specialising
in important European sculpture from the early
Renaissance to the Neo-Classical periods with
a particular knowledge of European Renaissance
bronzes. They also have interests in several other
fields including Old Master paintings, antiquities,
fine furniture and objects. They have promoted
and supported, through loans and exhibitions,
major international institutions such as the Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge; the Centro Internazionale,
Carrara; The National Gallery, Prague; and the
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. In addition,
the company has advised a number of private collectors
of European sculpture and Old Master paintings
and made significant sales to some of the world's
most prestigious museums, including the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York; the Bode Museum, Berlin;
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, (Sarah Campbell
Blaffer Foundation and Rienzi Collection): The
Liechtenstein Collection, Vienna; Yale Center
for British Art; the Art Institute of Chicago;
and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Tomasso
Brothers Fine Art was one of the sponsors of the
landmark show Bronze at the Royal Academy of Arts,
London, 2012.

David
Tunick

Works
of art on paper: old master and modern prints
and drawings David Tunick, Inc. was founded in
1966. We specialize in fine prints and drawings
from the 15th to the mid-20th century. Our gallery
is housed in an elegant townhouse on the Upper
East Side, and we welcome visitors who are interested
in works on paper by such masters as Rembrandt,
Dürer, Goya, Fragonard, Matisse, Picasso
and many others. We are a member of the Art Dealers
Association of America (ADAA), Chambre Syndicale
de l’Estampe (Paris), the Confédération
Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres
d’Art (CINOA), the International Fine Print
Dealers Association (IFPDA), and The European
Fine Arts Foundation (TEFAF). Additionally, we
participate in the ADAA Art Show, the TEFAF Maastricht
Art Fair, and the IFPDA Print Fair on a yearly
basis. We work with major museums and private
collectors throughout the world, and our clients
include such leading institutions as the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Pierpont
Morgan Library, the National Gallery of Art (Washington),
Yale University Art Gallery, the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts, the Chicago Institute of Art, the
British Museum, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Our inventory is extensive, and we welcome inquiries.
In addition to buying and selling works on paper,
we also provide cataloguing, authentication, and
appraisal services.

Paul
van Rosmalen Borzo [Holland]

20th
century art Borzo is one of the oldest established
art galleries in The Netherlands. In Modern Art
the gallery has a special focus on international
avantgarde movements from the 20th Century, often
with Dutch roots, such as “De Stijl”
and “NUL” (Zero). Furthermore the
gallery shows Geometrical Abstraction, Abstract
Expressionism, Nouvelle Ecole de Paris and Minimalism,
a.o. The Contemporary Art section shows internationally
renowned artists, primarily from The Netherlands.
In 1824 the Italian-born Joseph Borzo settled
in 's-Hertogenbosch and married Anna Sala, compatriot
and the daughter of immigrants, descendants of
a family of art dealers from Leiden and The Hague‘s
Hertogenbosch. In 1924 Jan van Rosmalen sr. bought
the property and the firm, carried on the business
and steered it through the crisis and war years.
The next generation: Jan van Rosmalen jr., later
with two younger brothers, took over after liberation,
continuing the business and in the following decades
further expanded it into a leading art dealership
in The Netherlands. When Paul van Rosmalen took
over Borzo in 1987, he knew that his ambitions
and interests in the history of art were different:
the core of the collection shifted from 19th to
20th century, from Haagse School to Ecole de Paris,
from Amsterdamse School to De Stijl, Nul and Minimalism,
from impressionism to expressionism, from the
Dutch sphere of interest to art with greater international
significance. More attention would also be paid
to contemporary art.."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S04 ep3 Gianmaria
Buccelatti [IT]

Gianmaria
& Luca Buccellati

Gianmaria
Buccellati carries on the noble traditions in
jewellery, silverware and watches. Every piece
is designed by Gianmaria himself or by his son
Andrea, and they personally follow the process
of realization, interacting with the jeweler-artisans
and giving them the right directions. This “personalization”
of production, entrusted to artisan’s manual
skills, makes Buccellati jewels unique as well
as incomparable. Hidden behind a Buccellati object
there is a philosophy which expresses, like in
art, an aesthetic choice, defining the canons
of a style: discretion, class, harmony. Buccellati
is still a family enterprise, with members of
the second and third generations involved in many
facets of the company’s activities.

Johnny
Van Haeften, although of Dutch origins, was born
and educated in England. After leaving Christie’s
in 1977, he formed Johnny Van Haeften Limited
and opened the present gallery at 13 Duke Street,
St. James’s, in 1982. For thirty-three years
he has pursued his passion for seventeenth century
Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings and is
now the only London dealer specialising in this
field. Johnny Van Haeften is a former council
member of the British Antique Dealers Association
and has previously acted as Vice Chairman of the
Society of London Art Dealers. He is currently
on the Executive Committee of the European Fine
Art Foundation and is a member of the Reviewing
Committee for the Export of Works of Art.

Angela
Westwater SPERONE WESTWATER

Sperone
Westwater Fischer was founded in 1975, when Italian
art dealer Gian Enzo Sperone, Angela Westwater,
and German art dealer Konrad Fischer opened a
space at 142 Greene Street in SoHo, New York.
(The gallery's name was changed to Sperone Westwater
in 1982.) An additional space was later established
at 121 Greene Street. The founders' original program
showcased a European avant-garde alongside a core
group of American artists to whom its founders
were committed. Notable early exhibitions include
a 1977 show of minimalist works by Carl Andre,
Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Sol Lewitt; seven
of Bruce Nauman's seminal early shows; eleven
Richard Long exhibitions; and the installation
of one of Mario Merz's celebrated glass and neon
igloos in 1979 -- part of the gallery's ongoing
dedication to Arte Povera artists, including Alighiero
Boetti. Renowned American artists Bruce Nauman
and Susan Rothenberg have been with Sperone Westwater
since 1975 and 1987, respectively. They are joined
by established and internationally-recognized
artists, including Guillermo Kuitca, Richard Long,
Malcolm Morley, Evan Penny, William Wegman and
Not Vital, as well as a younger generation of
artists like Bertozzi & Casoni, Wim Delvoye, Kim
Dingle, Charles LeDray, Tom Sachs, Jan Worst and
Liu Ye. Sperone Westwater also has in its inventory
work by Carla Accardi, Alighiero Boetti, Lucio
Fontana, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz,
Otto 'Piene, Julian Schnabel, Richard Tuttle,
and ZERO Group. In September 2010, Sperone Westwater
inaugurated a new Foster + Partners designed building
at 257 Bowery in New York. Today, over 35 years
after its conception, the gallery continues to
exhibit an international roster of prominent artists
working in a wide variety of media.

Francois
Laffanour DOWNTOWN

For
more than thirty years, FrançoisLaffanour
has been recognized as one of the very earliest
visionary champions of Charlotte Perriand, Jean
Prouvé and Le Corbusier. At a very early
stage, his intuition steered him towards Ron Arad,
to whom his gallery has already dedicated two
solo shows, in 2005 and then in 2008. In tandem,
he collaborated on his public exhibitions at the
Centre Pompidou in 2008, as well as at the MoMA
in 2009."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S04 No.5 AEDES
[Berlin] & Timo Toots [Estonia]

Kristin
Feireiss

Aedes
was founded in 1980 by Kristin Feireiss and Helga
Retzer († 1984) in Berlin-Charlottenburg
as the first private architecture gallery in Europe.
In memoriam Kongresshalle Berlin was the title
of the opening exhibition, which became a groundbreaking
success. In 1985 the architecture forum Aedes
West moved to the S-Bahn vaults at Savignyplatz.
In 1995, under the name of Aedes East, another
branch was opened in Hackesche Höfe in Berlin-Mitte
by Kristin Feireiss together with her partner
Hans-Jürgen Commerell. Since 1996, the team
is reinforced by Ulla Giesler, cultural scientist..

Timo
Toots

Timo Toots (EE) has been producing interactive
art projects that analyze, comment on and reflect
upon developments in Information Society. Memopol-2
is a social machine that maps the visitor’s
information field. When an identification document
such as a national ID card or a passport is inserted
into it, the machine starts collecting information
about the visitor from (inter)national databases
and the Internet. The data is then visualized
on a large-scale custom display. People using
the machine will be remembered by their names
and portraits. The Cyrillic spelling of the installation’s
name refers to George Orwell’s concept of
Big Brother from his dystopian novel 1984. Over
the past decades, technology has transformed the
surveillance of society. When surfing the Internet,
paying with an ATM card or using an ID card, people
leave their digital traces everywhere. The Internet
and social networks gather and provide a great
deal of personal information, and a person’s
profile is no longer constituted by his or her
physical being alone. Background checks through
Internet search engines and social network sites
have become routine. Memopol-2 enables us to make
a thorough background check on ourselves, mirroring
our virtual image.

Jean-David
Cahn AG was founded in 1999 and continues a proud
family tradition which reaches back for almost
150 years. The first catalogues of the Münzhandlung
Cahn appeared in 1863 in Frankfurt am Main. After
Hitler ascended to power, the company was forcefully
arianised. The family emigrated to Basel and refounded
the company. It was succeeded by Münzen und
Medaillen in 1941. In 1988 Herbert A. Cahn, Honorary
Professor of Numismatics at the Universities of
Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau, spun off
the antiquities department and founded H.A.C.
Kunst der Antike. Following Herbert A. Cahn’s
retirement, the company was dissolved in 1998.
Subsequently, a new company, Jean-David Cahn AG,
was formed by his son. Jean-David Cahn retained
his father’s specialisation in ancient Greek,
Roman and Egyptian art. In addition to this, he
endeavoured to create a dialogue with other forms
of art. This lead to interdisciplinary exhibitions
such as „Apollon und Dionysos“ (1999)
and „Augenblick und Ewigkeit“ (2004)
with the renowned dealer in old master paintings,
Konrad Bernheimer. Jean-David Cahn studied Classical
Archaeology in Basle. In 1988 he worked for the
Antikenmuseum Basle und Sammlung Ludwig, whose
collection of arms and armour he published. He
also contributed to the catalogue of the exhibition
„Glories of the Past: Ancient Art from the
Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection“ which
was shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, in 1990. Jean-David Cahn joined Sir John
Boardman in Oxford to prepare his doctorate on
decorated arms and armour in 1989. He was Junior
Research Fellow at Wolfson College from 1990-1996.
Furthermore, he is a founding member of the IADAA
(International Association of Dealers in Ancient
Art) and a sought-after expert in questions on
the art trade. He has, for instance, advised the
Council of Europe. He is currently preparing a
publication on the arms and armour in The Sackler
Museums, Harvard University, and directs various
Vetting Committees on ancient art, for instance
that of TEFAF Maastricht. He is also a Board Member
of IADAA, VSAK (Verband Schweizerischer Antiquare
und Kunsthändler) and TEFAF.

Nicholas
Kilner

Sebastian
+ Barquet Gallery was established in New York
in 2005 with the intention of providing collectors
with access to the finest available examples of
20th Century Design. Sebastian + Barquet has two
locations in New York’s Chelsea design district
and maintains a presence at the principal design
fairs worldwide. With a focus on masterworks of
American and European design of the 1940’s
-1980’s, the gallery is dedicated to presenting
well-curated, museum-quality exhibitions that
celebrate the works of established masters while
simultaneously showcasing the work of lesser-known
designers. The gallery’s exhibited artists
include international designers who have left
an indelible mark on the design landscape, such
as Buckminster Fuller, Vladimir Kagan, George
Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, Gio Ponti and Jean Prouvé.

Franck
Prazan

Ecole
de Paris from the 50´s

Since
its creation, Applicat´s vocation has always
been to exhibit and support the Paris School of
the 50s and more especially the Abstract, Cobra
and Surrealist movements. Due to its action outside
the Parisian gallery, it has contributed towards
reviving unquestionably new ideas, but that the
last two decades had unfortunately forgotten.
Today, that period of the history of Art has rightfully
found its place: an essential place. Bernard Prazan,
an art-collector of long standing, founded his
first gallery in 1989. Specialized since its inception
in top quality paintings by the principal Artists
of the Post-War School of Paris, Applicat-Prazan
settled down in 1993 at 16 rue de Seine, on the
Left Bank in Paris in the very heart of the art
gallery district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
The end of 2010 saw the opening of a second address
on the Right Bank at 14 avenue Matignon. Since
2004 Franck Prazan has been running the gallery:
Before succeeding his Father, he was formerly
Managing Director of Christie’s in France.
As such, he oversaw its development from a simple
representative office to a fully fledged auction
house, moving the company to the Avenue Matignon
in Paris.."

Koopman
Rare Art grew from the 1993 merger of E & C.T.
Koopman & Son and Rare Art London. Historically,
we have put together some of the most prestigious
antique silver collections of the last sixty years.
Most famously the Al Tajir Collection, the Packer
Collection and the A.H. Whiteley Trust Collection,
to name a few. We have also been working side
by side and supplying many museums worldwide.
These include the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London;
The Indianapolis Museum of Art; The Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston; the Art Gallery of South Australia;
the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery; The Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston; The Ashmolean Museum of
Art & Archaeology, Oxford; the Royal College of
Physicians; and the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery,
amongst others. The company is well-known for
holding one of London's largest stocks of top
quality English silver . Of particular note would
be the work of Robert Garrard , Paul Storr , and
Paul De Lamerie , but this is far from the limit
of our specialisation. In 2005 we held a unique
exhibition on Rundell Bridge and Rundell. Following
on from this success we held an exhibition in
2010 called "The Classical Ideal". Both of these
events were combined with a charitable event to
help firstly The Princes Trust and then The Sir
John Soane's Museum.

Galerie
Karsten Greve in Cologne, Paris, Milan and St.
Moritz

Karsten
Greve, born in 1946, studied law and art history
in Cologne, Lausanne and Geneva. He started his
career as an art dealer and publisher in 1969.
Since 1970, together with Rolf Möllenhof,
he operated the Möllenhof/Greve gallery.
He opened the first of his own galleries at the
beginning of 1973 with a debut showing of a solo
exhibition by Yves Klein in the gallery building
at Lindenstraße, Cologne. His intimate face-to-face
contact with foremost artists, such as Cy Twombly,
Jannis Kounellis, John Chamberlain, Louise Bourgeois
and others, provided the basis for his program’s
quality, which is defined by international avant-garde
after 1945. Apart from Twombly, Kounellis, Chamberlain
and Bourgeois, this includes artists like Joseph
Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Pablo
Picasso, Louis Soutter and WOLS. During his 40
successful years as an international art dealer,
Karsten Greve significantly contributed to the
worldwide recognition of artists like Louise Bourgeois,
John Chamberlain, Lucio Fontana, Gotthard Graubner,
Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni and Cy Twombly.
In addition to this, the gallery also represents
"young artists" for many years, like Norbert Prangenberg,
Paco Knöller, Peter Schmersal, Leiko Ikemura,
Loic Le Groumellec and Carole Seborovski, as well
as the photographers Sally Mann, Adam Fuss and
Lynn Davis.

Ole
Hostbo

Dansk
Møbelkunst gallery specializes in 20th
Century Scandinavian design. The gallery is a
leading authority in Danish historical design
from 1920–1970, with particular emphasis
on rare modernist furniture and lighting. Dansk
Møbelkunst Gallery specializes in rare,
original works of Danish furniture that were created
during 1920-70, when a circle of craftsmen, architects
and designers erased the distinction between works
of art and functional equipment for everyday life.Established
by Ole Høstbo in 1992, Dansk Møbelkunst
takes its’ name from the Danish word for
Furniture Art, a term that is rooted in the handicraft
tradition and signifies a synthesis of aesthetics,
utility and craftsmanship. During the twentieth
century, møbelkunst evolved from the reproduction
of historical styles to the creation of truly
modern furniture that relied on beautiful materials,
rather than applied decoration, and finely-crafted
details for its’ aesthetic value. The gallery’s
expertise encompasses both handcrafted masterpieces
and iconic works of industrial design. ."

The
Sladmore Gallery has its origins in a private
collection of nineteenth century bronze animal
sculpture, assembled by Jane Horswell in the 1960’s
at Sladmore Farm in Buckinghamshire. In 1968 the
gallery moved to the three floor mews premises
off Berkeley Square, where Sladmore Contemporary
is still located today, in the heart of London’s
Gallery district. The Sladmore Gallery with its
collection of 19th and 20th century sculpture
is now located nearby at our recently refurbished
new Jermyn Street

Gallery
Tornabuoni

International
modern and contemporary art Also present in Italy
(Florence, Milan, Portofino and Forte di Marmi)
and in Switzerland (Crans-Montana). Highly specialized
in Italian Art from the second half of the XXth
century (Alighiero e Boetti, Agostino Bonalumi,
Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Piero Dorazio, Lucio
Fontana, and Piero Manzoni), Tornabuoni Art also
proposes permanent works by international avant-garde
artists of the XXth century (Picasso, Miro, Kandinsky,
Hartung, Poliakoff, Dubuffet, Lam, Matta, Christo,
Wesselmann, Warhol, and Basquiat, just to name
a few) as well as by the main artists in the Italian
Novecento (De Chirico, Morandi, Balla, Severini
and Sironi).

Christophe
de Quénetain (Paris)

Furniture and Decorative arts Born in 1974 in
Paris,

Christophe
de Quénetain studied at Lycée Kléber
in Strasbourg and at the Université Robert
Schuman in Strasbourg, France, where he obtained
a Law degree. ?He read History of Art at the Ecole
du Louvre in Paris and had two BAs with honors
in "Histoire des arts appliqués à
l'industrie" (History of Industrial Decorative
Arts) and "Architecture, Décor et Ameublement
des Grandes Demeures" (Great house's architecture,
design, decoration and furnishing). Christophe
also studied with skilled cabinetmakers of the
famous Ecole Boulle where he developed wooden
works expertise. After training at the Centre
de Recherches Historiques sur les Maîtres
Ebénistes (Cabinet Maker Research Center),
he joined in 2000 the Galerie Chevalier in Paris
where he was in charge of the documentation and
the organisation of major international fairs
–Biennale Internationale des Antiquaires
and TEFAF- and of the show –"Tapisseries
coptes, textiles d'Egypte IVe-XIIe siècle".
Galerie Chevallier is specialised in the finest
French, Flemish and European tapestries, working
for museums and prominent collectors (Copt tapestries,
Egyptian textiles from the 4th to the 12th Century).
After completing his thesis at the Ecole Pratiques
des Hautes Etudes in Paris, he gave lectures on
Fine Arts at Christie’s Education in Paris
from 2002 to 2007. Christophe also joined the
international auction house, Pierre Bergé
& Associés in 2005 where he was the director
for French and Continental Furniture and Fine
Arts department. At Pierre Bergé & Associés,
Christophe developed a strong professional relationship
with an international client basis of prominent
collectors, renowned interior designers and curators
from major international museums. Christophe's
knowledge and expertise have been acknowledged
and recognised by senior curatorial staff of major
international museums, as Musée du Louvre,
Chateau de Versailles in France, the Frick Collection
in New York, the Norton Simon Museum in Passadena,
the Huntington Collection in San Marino, the John
P. Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery
of Art in Ottawa, Canada... with whom he has kept
a strong relationship.

Oceanic
Art from Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and
Australia Specialized in the Fine Art of the traditional
cultures of the South Pacific islands for over
twenty years, Anthony JP Meyer is the author of
"Oceanic Art" ( Könemann, Köln, 1995)
and numerous thematic catalogues. He has organized
more then thirty exhibitions in his Parisian gallery.
Anthony JP Meyer is a recognized expert in Oceanic
Art and advises public institutions and private
collectors with regard to acquisitions and collection
managment. GALERIE MEYER - OCEANIC ART is a Primitive
Art gallery in Paris devoted exclusively to the
fine and early Tribal Arts of Oceania.

Marie-Anne
Krugier

Among
the most influential and distinguished art dealers
of his time, Jan Krugier was also among the wealthiest;
he once reportedly turned down $100 million offered
by a Spanish museum for Picasso's Liebespaar (The
Couple). Yet he and his wife, a Polish princess,
lived comparatively simply, at a house in Geneva
scarcely large enough to contain his own collection,
described by one London connoisseur as "probably
the greatest private collection of drawings in
the world". An iconoclast who ignored convention,
Krugier organised stunning shows of art with unexpected
juxtapositions, combining African ceremonial objects
and Old Master drawings with, for example, some
of the most important names in modern and contemporary
art. Krugier's galleries in Switzerland and New
York, specialising in 19th- and 20th-century art,
handle works by painters such as Paul Cézanne,
Marc Chagall, Francis Bacon, Balthus, Georges
Braque, Alexander Calder, Edgar Degas and Henri
Matisse. Abandoning youthful hopes of becoming
an artist himself, Krugier established his first
gallery in Geneva in 1962, heeding the advice
of his friend, the Italian sculptor and painter
Alberto Giacometti, who suggested he become an
art dealer. The New York branch opened in 1987.
.

KUGEL

Nicolas
and Alexis Kugel are the fifth generation of antiques
dealers, their company having been founded in
Russia by their great-great-grandfather Elie Kugel.
At the end of the 18th century, Elie was a collector
of clocks and watches and persuaded his son Joseph
to become a clock repairer and he subsequently
went on to deal in both clocks and antique silver
and jewellery. His grandson Matias, Nicolas’
and Alexis’ grandfather, was also an antiques
dealer in Minsk and St Petersburg. Their father
Jacques, who was born in Russia in 1912, emigrated
to Paris in 1924 and established his business
first on the rue Amélie and then on the
rue de la Paix after the war, specialising in
silver and gold boxes. Jacques expanded the business
to deal in fine furniture, works of art and sculpture.
Jacques Kugel opened the highly prestigious gallery
at 279 rue Saint-Honoré in 1970, building
his reputation and acquiring important clients
from around the world. Nicolas and Alexis Kugel
took over the gallery when Jacques died in 1985
and have continued the family tradition of sourcing
the finest antiques and works of art to be found
anywhere. Since 2004, Nicolas and Alexis Kugel
have moved to Hôtel Collot, 25 quai Anatole
France, built in 1840 by the distinguished architect
Louis Visconti (1791-1853) for Jean-Pierre Collot
(1764-1852), director of La Monnaie (the French
Mint). Numerous highly important sales have been
achieved over the years, notably in 1994 the prestigious
collection of 16th century Limoges enamels from
the collection of Hubert de Givenchy, the finest
in private hands, and the remarkable Armoire au
char d’Appolon by André-Charles Boulle,
also from the celebrated designer’s collection.
An early 16th century mother-of-pearl silver-gilt
mounted casket, made by François I’s
goldsmith Pierre Mangot, allegedly the greatest
surviving example from the French Renaissance,
sold to the Musée du Louvre in 2000 for
an undisclosed sum but was said to be the most
expensive object ever acquired by this museum.
More recently, a double headed bronze conceived
by Primaticcio, from the collection of Yves Saint-Laurent
and Pierre Bergé, made for the King François
Ier for his Château of Fontainebleau, was
sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S04 no.10 James Mayor, Fernando
Botero

James
Mayor

Dada,
Surrealism and International Pop-Art The Mayor
Gallery, was the first Gallery to open its doors
in Cork Street. Founded by Fred Mayor (1903-1973)
in 1925. Many artists exhibited for the first
time in England at the Mayor Gallery and they
included, amongst others, Bacon, Calder, Ernst,
Klee, Masson, Miro and Paolozzi. The Mayor Gallery
was also the centre of UNIT ONE, a group that
included Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Paul Nash,
Edward Wadsworth, Edward Burra and others. James
Mayor, Fred´s son, took over the Gallery in 1973
since then the Mayor Gallery has shown the work
of many leading American artists. They include:
Hesse, Lichtenstein, Martin, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg,
Rosenquist, Ryman, Twombly, Warhol and Wesselmann.
The Gallery continues to show the works of leading
American Pop artists, but remains London's foremost
Gallery for Dada and Surrealism.

Fernando
Botero

"Fernando
Botero's distinctive style of smooth inflated
shapes with unexpected shifts in scale is today
instantly recognizable. It reflects the artist's
constant search to give volume presence and reality.
The parameters of proportion in his world are
innovative and almost always surprising. . Today
Fernando Botero divides his time between Paris,
New York and Tuscany. His paintings, sculptures,
and drawings are exhibited and represented in
museum collections throughout the world."

Medieval
and Renaissance works of art. Old Master Paintings
. The gallery´s origins date back to the
1930´s with Felix Lopez de Aragon’s,
the Elder, profound interest in the arts, resulting
in a large collection of paintings, antiques and
works of art. The gallery was founded in 1967
by his son Felix Lopez de Aragon, the Younger,
first in Vizcaya and later in Madrid, who began
dealing in the international art-market exhibiting
in Frankfurt, Florence, Paris, Basel, Palm Beach
and finally at the Tefaf Fair in Maastricht for
the last 14 years together with his son Diego
Lopez de Aragon, currently running the business.

Jaski
Gallery

Jaski
Gallery is opened seven days a week from 12 until
6 pm. Ever since 1988, our gallery has been established
in the heart of Dutch contemporary art: the Spiegelkwartier
in Amsterdam. Jaski Gallery additionally exhibits
at leading trade fairs such as TEFAF Maastricht,
PAN Amsterdam, The Affordable Art Fair and Art
Cologne. The gallery makes its own products as
well, such as silkscreen prints, lithographs,
etchings and books. We regularly organise exhibitions,
some of them in collaboration with museums, with
the emphasis on the work of CoBrA members such
as Corneille, Karel Appel, Constant and Eugène
Brands. However, we also have an eye for post-CoBrA
developments, and contemporary artists.

Giuseppe
Piva

Japanese
Art (Milan)

Giuseppe
Piva deals in a range of Japanese works of art,
including armour, helmets, swords, screens, netsuke
and lacquers. www.giuseppepiva.com

Ben
Brown founded Ben Brown Fine Arts on London’s
Cork Street in January 2004 after spending 10
years as a director of Sotheby’s’
Contemporary Art department, and two years as
co-managing director of Waddington Galleries.
Ben Brown Fine Arts has a particular focus on
20th Century Italian Art, exhibiting works of
established artists such as Lucio Fontana, Alighiero
Boetti and Mimmo Rotella alongside internationally
renowned gallery artists such as Ron Arad, Tony
Bevan, Candida Höfer, Claude and François-Xavier
Lalanne, Heinz Mack, Heribert C. Ottersbach, Matthias
Schaller, Not Vital and Jan Worst. Consequently,
the gallery has become attractive to those collectors
with an appreciation for the old as well as an
eye for the new.

Sophia
Vari Botero

Born
in 1940 in Vari near Athens. Lives and works in
Paris and Pietrasanta in Italy Figurative at her
beginnings as sculptress in 1975, Sophia Vari
gradually finds an intense plentitude in freeing
herself from the subject in order to measure herself
against Time and Space. She discovers with passion
the structure of the planes, the monumental. Her
forms becom tangled, gather themselves, soar skywards,
kink, unfold in extension, merge in ease. As Greek,
she refuses what is approximate and her sense
of perfection leads her to a rigour in her studies
and search (her numerous journeys incite her to).
Though abstract, her sculptures keep from her
original land a certain classicism.

Peter
Eisenman (born August 11, 1932) is an American
architect. Eisenman's professional work is often
referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late
avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc. A certain
fragmenting of forms visible in some of Eisenman's
projects has been identified as characteristic
of an eclectic group of architects that were (self-)labeled
as deconstructivists, and who were featured in
an exhibition by the same name at the Museum of
Modern Art. The heading also refers to the storied
relationship and collaborations between Peter
Eisenman and post-structuralist thinker Jacques
Derrida.[1] Peter Eisenman's writings have pursued
topics including comparative formal analyses;
the emancipation and autonomization of the discipline;
and histories of Architects including: Giuseppe
Terragni, Andrea Palladio, Le Corbusier and James
Stirling. While he has been referred to as a polarizing
figure,[citation needed] such antagonistic associations
are likely prompted by Colin Rowe's 1972 criticism
that the work pursues physique form of European
modernism rather than the utopian social agendas
(See "Five Architects," (New York: Wittenborn,
1972)) or more recent accusations that Eisenman's
work is "post-humanist" (Perhaps because his references
to the Renaissance are 'merely' formal). While
his apathy towards the recent "green" movement
is considered polarizing or "out-of-touch", this
architect-artist (with drawings held by major
collections) was also an early advocate of computer
aided design. Eisenman employed fledgling innovators
such as Greg Lynn and Ingeborg Rocker as early
as the 1989.[citation needed] Despite these claims
of polarity and autonomization, Eisenman has famously
pursued dialogues with important cultural figures
internationally. These include his English mentor
Colin Rowe, the Italian historian Manfredo Tafuri,
George Baird, Fredric Jameson,[citation needed]
Laurie Olin, Rosalind Krauss and Jacques Derrida.[2]
In addition to his vast literary contributions
(as editor, curator, and writer) and professional
practice, Eisenman's reputation as a critic and
professor of architecture is similarly famed..

Alessandro
Ciffo [Furniture]

Born
in Biella, near Turin, in 1968, he joined the
world of design and plastic materials only in
1997. Self-teaching and self-production are the
key words of his artistic journey, based on the
extreme research for the potentialities of silicone
n his one and only medium n, which is the only
material capable of fully expressing his emotions.
With an outstanding technical control, mastered
through tireless experimentations and endless
patience, Alessandro creates artefacts that cannot
be easily classified, as they are a crossroads
between art and design. In a riot of bright colours,
vivid whites and absolute blacks, a humble material
like silicone grows to be poetry, just like the
finest chinaware, the most precious woods and
marbles. Alessandro is a blend of many characters,
which are usually separate in our contemporary
world: a workman, an artist, a designer and a
manufacturer who makes his own products. Alessandro
is a modern alchemist, capable of transmuting
matter into material through inventionand wit,
even capable of turning it into the setting of
his projects, with the intention of arousing emotions.
His last artistic year saw Alessandro exhibitingat
the Plart Museum in Naples; his new sofa, made
of air and silicone, which was presented at the
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation during Artissima,
will be exhibited for one year at the Triennale
of Milan, within the show "Quali cose siamo" ("the
things we are"), edited by Alessandro Mendini.

The
Weiss Gallery is the leading dealer in Tudor,
Stuart and North European Old Master portraiture,
and it is a pleasure to welcome you to our website
where you will find an unequalled selection of
historical portraits for sale. We would also encourage
you to visit our splendid gallery, which is located
at 59 Jermyn Street, in the heart of prestigious
St James’s. Over the past decades, The Weiss
Gallery has made many notable sales , which now
grace distinguished private and public painting
collections around the world. One of the gallery’s
main strengths is its dedication to research.
Indeed the many catalogues that we have produced
over the years have become essential reading for
scholars and collectors alike.

MAISON
PARISIENNE

Jean-Marc
Dimanche & Florence Guillier Bernard

There
can be nothing exceptional without talent and
French craftsmen are unique in this respect, combining
culture and tradition, knowledge and expertise.
Beyond the manual skill, there is a work of art;
and beyond the work of art, there are the men
and women whose everyday life is steeped in the
outstanding art of rare objects and luxury materials.
Imagine a company without a catalogue, a company
that does not discuss products or ranges, a company
in which every item is unique because it is made
by the hand and heart of Man. maison parisienne
is that company, offering a collection of rare
objects created from the passion and expertise
of a handful of craftsmen who design and make
the most outstanding and most beautiful items
possible, each in his or her own craft form. maison
parisienne is that company, discovering and rediscovering
a French lifestyle, showing audacity and contemporary
design, working to pass it on and share it with
enthusiasts, the initiated, collectors of emotions
and lovers of the unusual and curious...

ART
JEWELS Didier Haspeslagh

Didier
Haspeslagh and Martine Newby Haspeslagh launched
the gallery in 2006. It specializes in artist's
jewels by post-war painters and sculptors and
silver and gold wares by leading 20th century
designers and architects. www.didierantiques.com
Since 2006 Didier Ltd has specialized in jewels
designed by leading Modern Masters, painters and
sculptors who are recognized internationally for
their art, while the fact that they also created
jewels often comes as a surprise. These jewels
can be very intimtate expressions of their art,
made either as unique pieces, often as personal
gifts for family and friends, or produced in small
limited editions. They are regarded by their creators
as valid expressions of their art, small sculptures
that were designed to be worn. Currently the gallery
has over 200 jewels by over 100 different artists
that date primarily from the 1940s to 1980s. With
this historical perspective, the gallery is uniquely
placed to acquire only the finest examples and
does not deal in re-issues or pieces produced
by artists' estates. After being neglected for
fifty years this overlooked expression of the
artists’ oeuvre is now regaining international
recognition..

Laurids:
Studied architecture at the Vienna University
of Technology (TU Wien).Co-founded the architect
and artist group Haus-Rucker-Co in Vienna in 1967.
Professor at the University of Art and Industrial
Design in Linz from 1976–87. Since 1987,
Professor of architecture at the Art Academy Düsseldorf.

Manfred:
Studied painting and art education at the Academy
of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1971–87 Atelier
Haus-Rucker-Co in Düsseldorf with Günter
Zamp Kelp and Laurids Ortner. Since 1994 Professor
of Design at the architectural school FH Potsdam.

Maki
Namekawa:

Deep
Space Music brings together sound and image, music
and computer animation in a way that transforms
the projection space into a setting for intimate
experiences. In it, Japanese pianist Maki Namekawa
will play a program of works by three visionary
composers who are also regarded as great thinkers.
Her piano concert musically celebrates the 60th
birthday of Ryuchi Sakamoto (JP) and Philip Glass’
(US) 75th, and commemorates the 100th anniversary
of the birth of John Cage (US). Prix Ars Electronica
prizewinner Canda? ?i?man (TR) and a crew from
NOHlab/Plato Media Lab (TR) will contribute an
extraordinary live visualization. In order to
provide Ms. Namekawa with latitude for spontaneous
improvisation, ?i?man and friends will be working
live in real time, though, in doing so, they’ll
have recourse to a repertoire of prepared graphic
elements that are the outcome of an intensive
process of encounter with the respective pieces
of music.

Old
Master and 19th-century paintings The Matthiesen
Gallery was founded in 1978 by Patrick Matthiesen,
son of renowned Berlin and London dealer Francis
Matthiesen, who had arranged the sale of pictures
on behalf of The Hermitage. Now entering it fourth
decade, this purpose-built gallery in the heart
of St. James’s, has built an established
and formidable reputation as a leading international
dealer in important Italian, French and Spanish
artworks, dating from the 14th Century up to and
including many of the major nineteenth century
schools. Beginning in 1981 with their exhibition
Important Italian Baroque Paintings 1600-1700,
the Matthiesen Gallery established its continuing
commitment to mounting exhibitions accompanied
by scholarly catalogues which not only fostered
art historical discussion, but also in some cases,
introduced new areas of connoisseurship and collection
to the London and international markets. Other
major exhibitions of Italian art include Early
Italian Paintings 1300-1480 (1983); From Borso
to Cesare d’Este 1450-1628 (1984), an extraordinary
show of Ferrarese painting, which was presented
with the co-operation of the Italian Government;
and other dedicated exhibitions of later baroque
paintings (1985 and 1986), Emilian paintings (1987),
and rococo and early neo-classical paintings of
the settecento (1987). Later, in 1996, the gallery
mounted a landmark exhibition of Italian primitives,
Gold Backs 1250-1480. This exhibition, which effectively
introduced the study and connoisseurship of these
rare works to the London market, was accompanied
by a fully illustrated hardback catalogue written
by several of the most renowned authorities in
this field. To mark the turn of the millennium,
in 2001 the gallery released a major catalogue
of Italian art covering the period 1500-1720,
which included the discovery of a painting attributed
to the young Raphael. The following year the gallery
published a newly discovered Andrea del Sarto.
The gallery has also published other dedicated
studies on Polidoro da Caravaggio, Jacobello del
Fiore, Gaspare Vanvitelli, Francesco del Cairo,
Niccolo Ranieri, and a rare and intact suite of
important Florentine baroque paintings depicting
The Four Seasons. The gallery’s commitment
to French art has resulted in several successful
exhibitions mounted in conjunction with the former
Stair Sainty Matthiesen Gallery in New York, including
Romance and Chivalry, an exhibition of ‘troubadour’
paintings (1997) and a survey of French landscape
painting, The Gallic Prospect (1999). The gallery’s
other dedicated studies of French painting include
works on Jean-Baptiste Chardin, Jean-Victor Bertin
(2004) and Jacques Blanchard (2008), the last
two being at the time the first English language
studies of these artists as well as an exhibition
of French Painting 1789 - 1848 . Also in 2004
the gallery organised the exhibition Plein-air
painting in Europe 1780-1850, a travelling exhibition
of over 100 works of art, which was shown at the
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum, Japan, The National
Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New
South Wales, Australia and was accompanied by
a catalogue including contributions from some
of the most recognised curators and collectors
in this field. In 1996, the gallery launched An
Eye on Nature: Spanish Still Life Painting, which
included masterworks by Luis Meléndez,
Tomás Hiepes, Juan Sánchez Cotán,
and Francisco de Zurbarán. Many of these
works and indeed, this genre of painting had not
been seen outside of Spain prior to the landmark
exhibitions at the Kimball Museum, Fort Worth
and the National Gallery in London. In the autumn
of 2009 the Matthiesen Gallery continued its involvement
in Spanish art with our exhibition The Mystery
of Faith: An Eye on Spanish Sculpture 1550-1750
organised in association with Coll & Cortes, Madrid,
the exhibition ran concurrently with the National
Gallery’s ground-breaking show, The Sacred
Made Real, Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700.
In 2010 the gallery issued a catalogue on James
Ward entitled The Lioness and a Heron.

Otto
Jacob

At
17 years old Otto Jakob began to teach himself
to make jewelry. Inspired by the magic and artistic
power of Etruscan, Celtic and Hellenic masterpieces,
he learned their complex techniques using treatises
by Pliny and Cellini. Between 1977 and 1980 he
studied painting with Georg Baselitz. Since 1980
he has devoted himself exclusively to the creation
of jewelry.

Jean-Marc Dimanche & Florence Guillier Bernard
There can be nothing exceptional without talent and French craftsmen are unique in this respect, combining culture and tradition, knowledge and expertise. Beyond the manual skill, there is a work of art; and beyond the work of art, there are the men and women whose everyday life is steeped in the outstanding art of rare objects and luxury materials. Imagine a company without a catalogue, a company that does not discuss products or ranges, a company in which every item is unique because it is made by the hand and heart of Man. maison parisienne is that company, offering a collection of rare objects created from the passion and expertise of a handful of craftsmen who design and make the most outstanding and most beautiful items possible, each in his or her own craft form. maison parisienne is that company, discovering and rediscovering a French lifestyle, showing audacity and contemporary design, working to pass it on and share it with enthusiasts, the initiated, collectors of emotions and lovers of the unusual and curious....."

Jemima
Wyman

Jemima
Wyman is a contemporary artist who lives and works
between Brisbane and Los Angeles. Wyman completed
her Bachelor of Fine Arts (in Visual Arts) with
Honors at the Queensland University of Technology.
In 2007, she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts
from The California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles;
this study was made possible with the generous
support of an Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship.
In 2005 CamLab was formed, a collaboration between
Wyman and Anna Mayer. Recently they participated
in the Engagement Party series at the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Wyman’s individual
art practice incorporates various mediums including
installation, video, performance, photography
and painting. Her most recent artworks utilize
these mediums to specifically focus on visually
based resistance strategies employed within protest
culture and zones of conflict. These works aim
to explore the formal and psychological potentiality
of camouflage and masking in reference to collective
identity.

The Gallery's main focus is on antique Japanese
paper screens carrying the largest stock in Europe.
We also offer a range of Buddhist art, dating
from the Heian period (782-1184) onward. Other
works of art include metalwork, lacquer, cloisonné,
scrolls and scholar's objects not only from Japan
but also selected works from China and Korea.
We have been a strong supporter of Asian Art in
London since its inception in 1997, holding a
themed exhibition in the autumn of each year.
In an effort to raise awareness of Japanese art,
we give gallery talks to clients and to students
from both SOAS and the British Museum which is
always a great pleasure. Patrick Berko 19th century
and early 20th century European paintings

Berko
Fine Paintings

With
galleries in Knokke-Zoute and Shanghai, Berko
specialises in 19th century and early 20th century
European paintings. Its main area of interest
and research is 19th century Belgian paintings
and it has issued various publications on this
subject. Berko Fine Paintings covers the main
genres of the 19th century: animaliers, seascapes,
genre scenes, flowers paintings and still-lifes,
landscapes and vedutas and Belle Epoque scenes.
Born into a family of art and antique dealers,
Patrick Berko has always had a passion for the
academic, realist, orientalist and romantic schools
of painting in addition to the Belle Epoque period
of the early 20th Century. With his wife, Viviane,
he has opened galleries in Knokke-Le-Zoute (in
1976), Paris (in 1978), Brussels (in 1983), Antwerp
(in 1984), New York (in 1987), Tokyo (in 1989)
and in Shanghai (in 2008). Specialists in quality
European paintings. Patrick
and Viviane Berko share their passion with their
children Maximin, Irina and her husband Nicolas
de Waziers, who manage the gallery in Shanghai.

Emiel
and Esther Aardewerk [Holland]

Founded
by Abraham Aardewerk in 1970, the family has now
entered its fourth generation of antiques experts.
With its traditions firmly rooted in the city
of The Hague, the company’s history goes
back to the turn of the 20th century, when Abraham’s
grandfather started his own antiques shop on the
Paviljoensgracht. Abraham’s parents later
established their firm in the Lange Poten. In
November 1970 Abraham and his wife Magdie opened
their own showrooms at the Jan van Nassaustraat
in The Hague. Emiel and Esther, having been raised
amidst antiques, joined their father in the business
in 1995. They are continuing to expand the firm’s
expertise in antique Dutch silver and have been
instrumental in further adding a department of
fine jewellery.

Since1991,
the Salon du Dessin, which was created by a small
group of art dealers, is a reference for art lovers.
The yearly event, in the historical building of
the Paris Stock Exchange, attracts collectors
from all around the world to Paris - but not only
collectors. Experts, museum curators, academics
and art lovers gather during this international
event of major importance to the art market, equal
to Maastricht TEFAF or the Paris Biennale des
Antiquaires. Presided over by Hervé Aaron,
the Salon du Dessin is a showcase for internationally
renowned galleries, carefully selected by the
committee of French art dealers who founded the
fair. During this unique week in Paris dedicated
to drawings, the selected galleries bring to light
their most beautiful works on paper from the French,
Italian, English and Northern schools... From
Tiepolo to Delacroix, from Guercino to Louise
Bourgeois, from Ingres to Bonnard, more than 1000
drawings will be presented to the public in the
exceptional setting of the Palais Brongniart.

Jamie
Ede

Classical
antiquities and Egyptian works of art Established
in 1971,

Charles
Ede Limited is the Leading London-based dealer
in Classical and pre-Classical Antiquities from
Greece, Egypt, Cyprus and the Near East. All items
are fully researched and are sold with an unconditional
guarantee of authenticity.

Peter
Weiss NOMOS[Zurich]

Coins
and Medals (Ancient, Medieval & Renaissance)

Nomos
AG, based in a newly renovated building in the
central old town of Zurich, specializes in rare
and beautiful ancient, medieval and renaissance
coins and medals. The firm was founded by Dr.
Alan Walker, who serves as Director and Dr. A.
Peter Weiss, who serves as Board Chairman. Objects
are presented by private treaty sale, through
a yearly fixed price list catalogue and at an
annual public auction. Our clients are worldwide
and include major institutions such as the Harvard
Art Museum and Princeton University. ."

The
Kálmán Makláry Fine Arts
gallery is dedicated to the artists of the Post-War
School of Paris. Especially the Abstract and Surrealist
movements with artists like Judit Reigl, Simon
Hantai, François Fiedler, Alfred Reth,
Arpad Szenes, Endre Rozsda and Victor Vasarely.
Through it’s exhibitions outside the Budapest
based gallery and it’s publications of books
and catalogs, it has worked towards reviving unquestionably
important artists, some of whom the last decades
had unfortunately forgotten. The gallery works
with museums and art collectors and develops with
them long-term relationships of trust. Today,
some of the gallery’s artists have already
rightfully found their place in the major modern
art museums around the world. It also handles
and represents works by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul
Kallos, Geza Szobel, Etienne Sandorfi, Tibor Csernus,
Andre Balint and Kamill Major.

Saf
Waterman

Mr
Trevor Waterman is founder and chairman of the
family run company and his son Saf Waterman managing
director. Trevor Philip & Sons Ltd. has been at
the current address since 1986 and specialises
in antique globes, early scientific instruments
including barometers, surveying instruments, microscopy,
astronomy, navigation and time keeping, and more
recently naval binoculars. Members of the British
Antiques Dealers Association, the company exhibits
once a year at TEFAF in Maastricht and has links
with numerous international museums. Mr Waterman
is a founder of the Scientific Instrument Society
and the company supports various academic projects
in many museums.

Jean-François
Heim

Located
near the Elysée Palace and in the heart
of the famous "Faubourg Saint-Honoré" area
where numerous art dealers are established, Jean-François
Heim Gallery presents a collection of Old Master
and 19th-century paintings, sculpture and drawings.
Looking at the artistic world with a new and even
scientific eye, Jean-François Heim supplies
private collectors as well as french and foreign
museums. He regularly publishes catalogues and
is the author, in collaboration with his brother,
of "The painting Salons during the Revolution".
He is finishing another book, on the Salons of
the Consulate and Empire periods.

In
2008 Beate Einen Glass & Design was established
to design and produce a range of work from glass
tableware and lighting design to one-of-a-kind original
sculptures. Even though Einen produces most of the
work herself, she also pulls together master craftsmen,
designers and engineers who can meet the demands
of larger projects.

Adi
Hoesle

Adi
Hösle: Paint pictures at a computer without the
use of your hands, keyboard or mouse. Brain Painting
lets you produce images with the conscious activity
of your brainwaves, which a brain-computer interface
(BCI) and special software translate into actual
pictures. The principle is: painting by thinking.
And this opens up previously unimaginable expressive
possibilities—for example, for paraplegics. What’s
behind it is a psychological research approach in
use at the University of Würzburg, which artist
Adi Hoesle (DE) has been investigating to find out
which brainwaves or neuronal patterns are best suited
to creating art.

Francesca
Fabbri

Francesca
Fabbri was born in Bologna in 1963. She lives and
works in Ravenna. She studied at and was awarded
a diploma from the Institute of Mosaic Art and in
1987 graduated with 1st class honours from the Academy
of Fine Arts in Ravenna. In 1988 she founded the
AKOMENA studio, a design centre and workshop for
contemporary mosaic, dedicated both to architecture
and interior design, in continuous pursuit of an
aesthetic that is both disciplined and sublime.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S04 No.22 Michal Fronek [Czeck], Joe Davis [USA]

Joe
Davis (US) is an artist, researcher and scientist
who works at, among other places, MIT’s Department
of Biology. He has developed new biological art
forms and numerous uncategorizable works at the
nexus of art and science. It sounds like science
fiction, but it is not. On planet Earth, sophisticated
manufacturing processes with full-fledged assembly
lines have been running in many different kinds
of factories for hundreds of millions of years.
Nature evolved biological techniques for large-scale
production and manufacturing of a huge variety of
specialized materials long before human beings ever
existed. Homo sapiens, in turn, have historically
exploited many such natural factories to obtain
a long list of essential commodities simply because
comparable materials could not otherwise be efficiently
produced. Even today, biologically assisted methods
of production are often put to use with relatively
little understanding of the underlying chemical
and molecular operations. In recent decades, science
has revealed details about some of these operations.
Since nature is almost always much more efficient
than human industry, researchers are focusing on
various biological processes that can be put to
work for humanity. The promise of this research
is that microbial machinery will eventually carry
out many operations now carried out by heavy industry,
but with fewer resources and without environmental
pollution. Biological Radio addresses this interface
of biology and technology.

Michal
Fronek

Michal
Fronek was 1966 born in Prague 1988 - 1994 studied
at Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design
in the Department of Architecture and Design led
by Prof. Arch. PhDr. Šípek 1990 - with Jan Nemecek
founded design group "Olgoj Chorchoj" at summer
workshop of Vitra Design Museum in Weil a/R 1990
- 1993 foundation of "Artel" s. r.o., producing
objects of outstanding Czech designs of the 20th
century 1999 - with Jan Nemecek co-director of industrial
design studio at Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture
and Design

Born
in Bozzano Lucca in 1967, Italian sculptor and designer
Andrea Salvetti studied architecture at the University
of Florence under fellow artisan Guido Cristofani.
Salvetti began his ongoing collaboration with Dilmos
Milano in 1996 with the exhibition of the aluminu-cast
Monozoo chair-sculpture collection at Salone del
Mobile. Salvetti is known for designs and furniture-sculptures
inspired by the wonder of the natural world, often
cast in his mediums of choice; aluminum and bronze.
He also explores the interaction between food and
art, often with interactive, edible sculptures.
Notable projects from his ouevre include L’Albero
[Tree], Tronchi [Trunk], L’apparita [Apparition],
and a series of aluminum, cloud-like sculptures
called Domestic Nature (2012). He works with a variety
of furniture companies, and has designed pieces
for both private residences and public spaces.

Seiko
Mikami [interview with Soichiro Mihara and speech
by Andreas Broeckmann] Seiko Mikami’s large installation
“Desire of Codes” demonstrates how the boundaries
between the body of data in the virtual world and
the physical body in the real world are becoming
blurred in the context of Information Society. The
nightmarish setting of this interactive work consists
of three parts: a white wall on which 90 insect
feeler-like objects with build-in surveillance cameras
are mounted (Ninety Wriggling Wall Units); six giant
robot arms equipped with video cameras and laser
projectors hanging from the ceiling (Six Multi-perspective
Search Arms); and a round projection surface 3.5
meters in diameter. This Compound Eye Detector Screen
resembles an insect’s multifaceted eyes. Visitors
become cognizant of being in the viewfinder of a
perfect piece of surveillance machinery. Highly
sensitive cameras and microphones register the slightest
movement and sounds beyond the range of human hearing.
Whatever is registered is stored in a high-performance
databank that is the actual core of “Desire of Codes.”
On the large screen, installation visitors experience
the real-time projections of their own images; these
sequences are interspersed by older footage within
the system as well as images from surveillance cameras
in public places worldwide.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S04 No.24 - H. Rasa ,

S.H.
Raza

Syed
Haider Raza Alias S.H. Raza (born 22 February 1922)
is an Indian artist who has lived and worked in
France since 1950, but maintains strong ties with
India. His works are mainly abstracts in oil or
acrylic, with a very rich use of color, replete
with icons from Indian cosmology as well as its
philosophy. He was awarded the Padma Shri and Fellowship
of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1981, Padma Bhushan
in 2007, and Padma Vibhushan in 2013.[6] He became
India's priciest modern artist on 10 June 2010 when
a seminal work, 'Saurashtra' by the 88-year-old
sold for INR 16.42 crore ($3,486,965) at a Christie's
auction.

DESIGN & DECORATION Series 3 [20x26min
episodes]

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 No.1 Gisele Croes, Baccarart
& Richard Feigen

" Gisele Croes "The Empress"

"The Chinese art market is a $1 billion-a-year trade and it
can be dangerous and frightening," she said. [...]
She said her market was also long on cloak-and-dagger.
"I've been accused of being everything from a
smuggler to an agent for the Chinese secret police,"
Croes said. "The mystery of my reputation is only
painful when it's a lie." Colin Sheaf, 53, deputy
chairman of Bonhams auction house in London and
the company's Chinese art specialist, spoke of
Croes's reputation in the trade.... "Gisele is
remarkable at finding treasure," Sheaf said. "She's
part of the world's most elite group of dealers,
handling a quality of Chinese merchandise that
auction houses can only dream about."

Baccarat French Glass & Crystal Maker

Richard Feigen A well-respected art dealer, passionate collector
and outspoken critic of cultural modes, Feigen
(Yale Class of 1952), is just as likely to be
found seated front and center bidding for a major
painting at an auction house in New York City
as selling one to the Louvre in Paris. A prominent
figure in the world of art for more than 50 years,
Feigen opened his first art gallery in Chicago
in 1957, soon following with galleries in New
York, and although his public persona as an art
maven is well known, his private passions as a
collector are not.

People from all parts of the world love Vienna
for its beauty, its flair and its central position
in European culture. Many famous musicians and
composers, such as Rubinstein, Brahms, Bartok,
Grieg, Mahler, Strauss and many more have lived
or worked in Vienna; and all of them also had
some connection with Bösendorfer. The lively,
mutually inspiring exchange with the artists made
Bösendorfer a cherished symbol of Vienna's musical
tradition. What makes a Bösendorfer so special
is not magic: Each Bösendorfer grand piano is
the work of an entire year - and the know-how
that has been passed on from generation to generation
since 1828, starting with Ignaz Bösendorfer.

Robert Landau [Montreal, Canada]

Landau Fine Art is a family-run gallery that is
unique in Canada since it is the only venue in
the country where museum quality works of international
masters can be found. Robert and Alice travel
extensively not only to exhibit their latest acquisitions
at the Basel, Chicago, Maastricht and Paris art
fairs but also to search out important works from
private estates. It is hardly surprising that
so many dealers and collectors from around the
globe make regular visits to Montreal (only 50
minutes by air from New York) for a private view
in a gallery where works by Picasso, Miro, Leger,
Moore, Chagall, Giacometti, Jawlensky, Dubuffet,
etc., abound and where the Austrian master, Hundertwasser,
can be discovered."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 ep3 Delvaux Leathergoods
& Augarten Porcelain

"Delvaux [Brussels]

Founded in 1829 in Brussels, Delvaux is the oldest
fine leather luxury goods company in the world.
Delvaux has remained a family-owned company, precisely
because it wants to protect such values as ethics,
quality, exclusivity and elegance, and to be able
to deliver an authentic luxury experience to its
customers, based on their expectations. Delvaux
is first and foremost about the product: handmade
following the oldest craft traditions, using the
finest leathers, created by renowned designers
in limited editions to guarantee exclusivity.
Products made with taste and perfection, to last
generations.

Augarten [Vienna]

Augarten porcelain is world-famous for its delicate
and graceful shape, its clean lines and exquisite
details. Combining sophisticated craftsmanship,
artistic design and the latest technical equipment,
Augarten uniquely blends time-honoured tradition
with a contemporary approach to art. The finest
porcelain is still produced and painted by hand
in our manufactory at Augarten castle just as
it has always been. Located at the geographical
crossroads of European cultures and as one of
the oldest European names in porcelain, Augarten
Wien has symbolised the continuity of timeless
Viennese tradition, art and culture for almost
300 years now."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 No.4 Peggy Guggenheim &
Shen Shaomin

"Philip Rylands, Peggy Guggenheim Venice

Located on Venice’s Grand Canal, the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection is one of Europe’s premier museums
devoted to modern art. With masterpieces ranging
in style from Cubism and Surrealism to Abstract
Expressionism, the collection has become one of
the most respected and visited cultural attractions
in Venice.

Shen Shaomin

Shen Shaomin (born China 1956) has connected art
and life, craft and the mechanical, in major sculptural
installations covering themes of war, futuristic
crisis, scientific abomination and the manipulation
of nature. One of the most critically and socially
aware of contemporary Chinese artists, his works
use ancient Chinese culture to comment on contemporary
ecological issues, politics and technology. In
the early 2000s, Shen created a series of imaginary,
'extinct', monstrous creatures made from bone.
In 2010 Shen has presented a hypothetical meeting
of the most significant communist leaders in history
whose life-sized bodies rest in crystal coffins."

Maximo Riera’s The Animal Chair Collection are
art pieces, which one can just so happen to sit
on. Not that many of us would. Sparing no effort
or expense, the Spanish artist blended the best
of cutting edge technology with expert craftsmanship.
This includes three-dimensional computer modeling,
a CNC milling machine, an internal frame, as well
as over 30 professionals for the entire project.

Dejana Kabiljo [Vienna]

The multidisciplinary artist and designer Dejana
Kabiljo currently lives and works in Vienna. After
graduating in architecture at the University of
Belgrade and receiving a Master Degree in design
from the Domus Academy in Milan, she took up the
post of Art Director at the Vienna Museum of Technology.
Two years later, she started her own professional
practice for design and architecture and was lecturer
at the University of applied Arts in Vienna. She
launched her own design brand Kabiljo Inc and
had the chance to showcase her first collection
in exhibitions at the MAK in Vienna. Kabiljo had
personal exhibitions all over the world, amongst
others in Tokyo, London, Milan, Vienna, of which,
the humorous PRETTYPRETTY collection, which consists
of hairy bar stools, poufs and chairs, was perticularly
successful..

Jerome Eisenberg, Royal Athena [NY] Antiquities

Royal-Athena Galleries currently offer one of
the widest ranges of antiquities available anywhere
in the world, including Greek, Etruscan, Roman,
Egyptian, and Near-Eastern sculpture and vases
as well as Classical coins, 17th to 19th century
prints and 19th century photographs of Classical
and Egyptian subjects. They have been dealing
in ancient art for more than 46 years and the
founder and director Dr. Jerome M. Eisenberg is
internationally recognised for his expertise in
the field."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 No.6 Hans Hollein & David
Elliott

"Hans Hollein [Vienna]

Hans Hollein studied at the Akademie der bildenden
Künste, Vienna, Masterclass for Architecture Prof.
C. Holzmeister, Diploma 1956; at IIT, Chicago
(1958-59) Architecture and City Planning and at
the University of California, Berkeley, College
of Environmental Design, Master of Architecture
(M.Arch.) 1960. Hans Hollein was professor for
Architecture at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf
1967 - 1976, he was professor for Design from
1976 to 1986 and professor for Architecture from
1976 until 2002 at the University of Applied Art
in Vienna where he also acted as Dean of the Architecture
Department from 1995 to 1999. He was guest professor
at the University of California, Los Angeles,
at the Yale University in New Haven and at the
Ohio State University in Columbus.

David Elliott

David Elliott (1949-) is a British-born art gallery
and museum curator. After studying history at
the University of Durham, and History of Art at
the Courtauld Institute of Art Elliott worked
as an exhibitions officer at the Arts Council
of Great Britain, after which he served as director
of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford from 1976
to 1996. Elliott's programme at Oxford included
exhibitions of art from Latin America, Asia, South
Africa, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Elliott
was then Director of the Moderna Museet (Museum
of Modern Art) in Stockholm from 1996 to 2001.
From 1998 to 2004 he was President of CIMAM [the
International Committee of ICOM for Museums of
Modern and Contemporary Art]. In the 90's he curated
a big exhibition 'Art and Power" exploring
the relationship of Art with the totalitarian
regimes in Europe in the first half of the 20th
century. The exhibition was shown in various museums
across the world. Between 2001 and 2006 Elliott
was the director of Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, a
large privately-endowed museum devoted to contemporary
- particularly Asian - art, architecture and design.
He was recently appointed Director of Istanbul
Modern starting January 2007, a post which he
resigned from on October 16th, 2007. Elliott is
Artistic Director for the 17th Biennale of Sydney,
'THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in
a Precarious Age'"

Impressionists and Post-Impressionists Twentieth
Century European Masters German Expressionists
Post War American Artists International Contemporary
Artists

Lobmeyer [Vienna]

Lobmeyr is working steadily on a contemporary
interpretation of glass, always in the awareness
of the own tradition. The interest in glass, practiced
in our daily work, and the dialogue with our artisans,
designers and customers have time and again led
to innovations. In 1835, Josef Lobmeyr equipped
the table of the imperial court with the "prism
cut drinking set" and received the title
of a "Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal
Court". The plain drinking set No. 4 by Ludwig
Lobmeyr from 1856 can be found in many current
design bibles. With the drinking set from 1905,
Stefan Rath revisited the Viennese Baroque. The
muslin drinking glass set by Josef Hoffmann was
created together with designers of the Vienna
Workshop. In 1929, the drinking set No. 248 by
Adolf Loos anticipated the shape of a plain chalice
that is valid to this day. "Ambassador"
and the spherical boxes by Oswald Härdtle received
the Grand Prix of the International Jury at the
"Art Deco" exhibition in Paris in 1925.
In 2007, Ted Muehling subtly combined style elements
of different epochs in his chalice set.

Adrian Sassoon [UK]

Adrian Sassoon is the UK's leading dealer in contemporary
ceramics, glass, silver and jewellery. Operating
out of offices in Knightsbridge, London, Adrian
Sassoon exhibits unique, museum-quality works
of art at some of the world's most prestigious
Art Fairs. Adrian Sassoon primarily represents
UK-based artists, however the portfolio has expanded
to include highly respected Japanese, Australian
and Italian designers. Work can be viewed year-round,
by appointment, in the London office."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 No.8 Talent Gallery, And
i & Georg Laue

"TALENT
Gallery, Anne Moreau [Paris]

Talents, the new boutique opened by Ateliers d’Art
de France, aims to become the reference point
for contemporary art professionals. Displaying
the latest trends, it features unique items and
limited editions created by more than 100 craftsworkers,
as well as exclusive creations.

Andreas Eberharter [Vienna]

andreas eberharter’s approach to design is that
of a sculptor who seeks free access to expressions
of artistic form. he uses new and unusual materials
such as aluminum and acrylic glass, but also swarovski
crystals and pearls or cubic zirconia.

Georg Laue [Munich] "Kunstkammera"

Georg Laue, a very passionate collector himself,
offers works of art made of precious materials
like ivory, rhinoceros horn, stag horn, gold and
silver, rock crystal, coral, serpentine and amber.
As natural curiosities, such exotic materials
were already considered valuable collectibles.
They become even more precious once turned or
carved by the most gifted artists who worked at
the European Renaissance and Baroque courts. Being
art historian, Georg Laue is well provided with
literature, not only on his favourite subject:
amber treasuries. He gives information as well
as estimations on art objects. Since 1999, Georg
Laue is publishing his own series of elaborately
designed catalogue books in collaboration with
scholars and museum curators, dealing with various
aspects of Kunst- and Wunderkammer."

Sven Jonke, born 1973 in Bremen, Germany Design
degree from the Study of Design in Zagreb. Christoph
Katzler, born 1968 in Vienna, Austria Design degree
from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Nikola Radeljkovic, born 1971 in Sarajevo, Bosnien
and Hercegovina Design degree from the Study of
Design Zagreb. The group was founded in 1998 and
since then developed products with Cappellini,
Interlübke, Desalto, MDF Italia, Moroso, Magis,
Zanotta and others. Interiors and events are designed
in close collaboration with graphic and multimedia
designers Jelenko Hercog and Toni Uroda under
the label NUMEN.

Fabrizzio Moretti [Florence]

Situated at the heart of Florence, between Palazzo
Strozzi and Santa Maria Novella, the Galleria
Moretti was open to the public, and to major public
and private collectors, on September 1999 with
the inauguration of the exhibition "From
Bernardo Daddi to Giorgio Vasari" and immediately
distinguished itself by its specialization in
Italian, and especially Tuscan, old masters. The
constant effort of documentation and study permitted
a new exhibition to be presented in September
2007: "Dagli eredi di Giotto al primo Cinquecento".
In pursuit of the promotion of great Italian painting,
a new gallery has been opened to the public in
London, in the capital's prestigious New Bond
Street. It aims to be a point of reference for
those collectors of old masters from the 14th
to the 18th century who seek a confidential and
discreet approach."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 no.10 Perrin, Bhomer &
Zilverberg

"Perrin Gallery Paris

Founder Jacques Perrin and his son Philippe specialize
in exceptional late 17th- to early 19th-century
French furniture, painting, sculpture and decorative
objects, displayed in a beautiful three-story
mansion on the Place Beauvau.

Marloes Bhomer [London-Amsterdam]

Marloes Ten Bhömer a London based Dutch product
designer graduated from the London College of
Fashion & The Royal College of Art. She is
considered one of the most promising designers
of her generation and has exhibited worldwide.
Most recently she was nominated for the Grand
Brit Insurance Design Award held at the Design
Museum. Ten Bhömer’s shoes are both provocative
and otherworldly; Her works question our perception
of functionality, fusing art and technology to
create an origami like production, working with
materials ranging from wood to polyurethane resin,
tarpaulin, steel and fiberglass. Marloes ten Bhömer
is a Hussein Chalayan for the extremities.’ Wallpaper
Magazine

Mieke Zilverberg [Amsterdam] Antiquities

Egyptian and classical antiquities, Greek and
Roman coins. Mieke Zilverberg is boardmember of
I.A.D.A.A. - International Association of Dealers
in Ancient Art."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 No.11 Bowman, Rotter &
Wace

"Robert Bowman [UK] Sculptures

The Robert Bowman Gallery is run by husband and
wife team Robert and Michele Bowman who specialise
in the dealership of an exceptional range of 19th
and 20th Century sculpture collected from Europe,
The United States of America and Australia. Robert
Bowman specialises in sculpture made of bronze,
marble and terracotta. The gallery houses an exquisite
range of pieces from early 19th century neo-classical
works through romantic, animalier and English
new school to symbolist and impressionist.

Hedwig Rotter [Vienna]

Hedwig Rotter graduated from the master class
for product design/ceramics under Matteo Thun
at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She
also studied industrial design under Ramon Beneditto
at the Escola de disseny Elisava in Barcelona.
In recent years, her projects have included the
development of logos; color and trend scouting
activities for Hirsch European Watches; the design
of a set of hot chocolate mugs for Zotter; and
the development of an accessories line for Palmers.
Hedwig Rotter participated in a competition sponsored
by the Vienna Environmental Agency on the theme
of "Viennese Water Pitchers" with the
design for a pitcher with accompanying glass.
She also took part in the 19th International Biennial
for Contemporary Ceramics in 2006 in Vallauris.
In the same year, she was selected by the "Talents"
program at the Tendence fair in Frankfurt.

Rupert Wace [UK] Antiquities

Rupert Wace has been dealing in Antiquities for
over 30 years. The gallery specialises in Egyptian,
Classical, Near Eastern and European works of
art from Prehistoric times up until the end of
the first millenium A.D. It is situated in the
centre of London´s art dealing district, at 14
Old Bond Street. Our international clients include
private collectors, other dealers and Museums
such as The British Museum, The Ashmolean, Oxford,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art N.Y., The Cleveland
Museum of Art, Ohio as well as various European
museums. Each year we regularly exhibit at three
major Art Fairs. Winter Antiques Show, New York;
The Grosvenor house Art and Antiques fair, London;
and Cultura, Basel."

Yu Jordy Fu had her first solo exhibition at Beijing
Capital Museum at age of six, and her artwork
has been published into two books and exhibited
at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Yu Jordy
Fu graduated from Central Saint Martins College
of Art and Design with a first-class degree in
Spatial Design, then a Master of Arts in Architecture
from Royal College of Art. In 2005, Jordy was
chosen by the British Council to be one of the
ten young designers representing creativity in
UK in a touring exhibition in China. In 2008 Jordy
was commissioned by the Southbank Centre in London
to design chandeliers for Royal Festival Hall.
Jordy launch her first sustainable product range
‘Cloud Lamps’ (jordyfu.co.uk/shop) in Dec 2008,
which received worldwide success and have been
published in over 30 architecture and design magazines
in 19 countries.

Bernard de Grunne [Zurich] African Art

Antique dealer since 1996, Bernard de Grunne has
a PhD in History of Art, Yale University, 1987.
He was Director at Sotheby's, New-York and London
from 1987 to 1992.

Vittorio Serio [Paris]

Vittorio, trained at the Ecole Boulle school,
is a real creator of contemporary furniture. It
is sometimes strange but he knows how to invent
tomorrow’s craftsmanship. He starts off with an
idea and has a final destination in mind, and
knows how to take his time to manage the available
space and make us evolve with his cabinetmaking
that shapes and sizes our way of life."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 No.13 Walking Chair &
Piva + C

"Walking Chair
Fidel Peugeot & Karl Emilio Pircher [Vienna]

Fidel Peugeot, born Sebastian Rudolf Baumgartner
in Basel, Switzerland began studying communications-design
with Prof Armin Hofmann, Wolfgang Weingart &
Rene Pulver at the University for Design in Basel.
During his studies he has already been working
as a graphic designer at the renowned agencies
GGK, WeberHodelSchmid and Stalder&Suter and
toured in a couple of bands as a musician. Next
to the written word he also cultivated the spoken:
together with Karl Rottweiler he founded the Swiss
label&station Radio Glaibasel (RGB107,6) in
the 80ties. After stopovers in New York and Paris
he finally came to Vienna in 1991. Here he developed
the first digitized handwritings, moreover a whole
dynasty of pixelfonts for online purposes, the
Lomofonts, the “Spruce” and the “Line” for Tyler
Brulée and the Wallpaper Group amongst others.
Since 2002 Fidel Peugeot has been Linotype font-designer.
Additionally Peugeot works in all fields of graphic
design, e.g. as illustrator, or as logo designer,
like for the Albertina, Vienna. 1999 Fidel Peugeot
met the Italian product-designer Karl Emilio Pircher.
An immediate mutual understanding led to the establishment
of the Walking-Chair Design Studio GmbH in the
heart of Vienna.

Piva & C [Milan]

Tomaso Piva follows in the footsteps of his father
to offer exceptional works of Italian renaissance
art & furniture."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 No.14 Belle Etage, Spitzer
& Aronson

"Wolfgang Bauer [Vienna]

For over 30 years, the Viennese Wolfgang Bauer
has been offering an exceptionally wide-ranging
selection of first-class Viennese Jugendstil furniture
and art objects in his gallery, "bel etage",
located in the centre of Vienna, within sight
of the opera. Interiors and objets d'art by the
most famous architects and designers of the turn
of the 19th to the 20th centuries, such as Adolf
Loos and Otto Wagner (along with their students),
as well as Josef Hoffmann and Kolo Moser - the
best known artists of the WIENER WERKSTÄTTE -
are presented on two floors. The range is rounded
off with paintings and sculptures by top-class
painters and sculptors of the early twentieth
century. With great enterprise and a fine nose,
the gallery owner succeeds time and again in tracking
down and documenting works by the best-known artists
of this important period, which has been gaining
increasing international recognition over the
past few years.

Serge Spitzer

Serge Spitzer (born Romania 1951) is an American
artist who uses sculpture, site-specific installations,
works on paper, photography and video to question,
explore and reflect on the shared reality everywhere.
What ties his works together since the 1970s has
been the challenging of assumptions. He gives
a clue to this by calling his works 'reality models',
alerting the viewer to the possibility that what
we are looking at is perhaps an altered or amplified
aspect of the world around us. Whether transforming
architectural spaces by flooding them with hordes
of unexpected, incongruous objects, or arranging
a seemingly endless piece of thread into a tangle
of lines as a 'drawing', Spitzer manages to gift
his audience with a sense of wonder.

Robert Aronson [Amsterdam] Delft Stoneware

This elegant gallery on the Nieuwe Spiegelstraat,
specializing in Dutch Delftware, is run by Robert
Aronson - fifth generation in a traditional family
business founded in 1881. The recently refurbished
modern gallery displays some of the earliest and
rarest objects produced by the Delft factories
in the 17th century, as well as a superb collection
of 18th-century animals, figures, plaques, chargers
and other interesting wares. Additionally, there
is a fine selection of Continental furniture also
from the 17th and 18th centuries."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 no.15 Fancsaly, Courtille
& Ramon

"Rita Fancsaly [Milan] 20thC Italian design

The gallery, established by Rita Fancsaly and
Franco Deboni in 1993, is actually located in
Milano, in the Brera district, a few meters from
the Accademia di Brera. Under the artistic direction
of architect Franco Deboni, one of the best reputed
experts in decorative arts of the Twentieth century,
author of some books about Italian glass, which
are internationally considered as the reference
for this subject, the gallery presents a high
selection of masterpieces of design, mostly Italian,
with a special interest for the designers active
in the period between 1930 and 1990. A special
attention is given to glass works, a field where,
with the effort of Mr. Deboni, we are able to
present a stock of museum quality items, from
the major firms and designers of the period.

Marion Courtille [Paris]

After studying crafts (cabinetmaking) and then
the applied arts, Marion Courtillé occupies the
interface between craft and design by establishing
her identity through the reassignment of materials.
How can one be innovative with a material that
has already been worked for many centuries? By
using techniques on this material generally applied
to other materials. Here, the working of the leather
is inspired by wood. The leather is carved, bent,
compacted… The transfer perpetuates the illusion,
the leather becomes solid, it is worked in depth
and in colour

Artur Ramon [Spain] Drawings & Pictures

Artur Ramon is the fourth generation of a family
of antique dealers whose business began in the
1920s and set up shop in Barcelona in 1942. In
spite of being generalists, ARTUR RAMON ART have
always paid a great deal of attention to antique
drawing, especially 17th- to 19th-century Spanish
and Italian drawings, with five biannual exhibitions
under the generic title "Raíz del Arte"
("The Roots of Art", 1993-2003) culminating
with the monographic exhibition "El papel
del dibujo en España" ("The Role of
Drawing in Spain"), in association with the
Caylus gallery in Madrid (2006). The catalogues
from these exhibitions are regarded as essential
to the understanding of Spanish drawing. Artur
Ramon is exhibiting at the Salon du Dessin, Paris,
since 2009. Artur Ramon has offered his drawings
to private collectors from Spain and abroad, as
well as to such museums and institutions as the
Museo del Prado and the Musée du Louvre."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 No.16 AES+F & Van Gelder

"AES + F [Moscow]

Russian based photo-conceptualist group AES (made
up of artists Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch,
and Evgeny Svyatsky). The artist collective combines
conceptual architecture, graphic arts, animation
and photography to create fantasy worlds combining
classical western mythology with contemporary
global consumerism. Their acclaimed work "The
Feast of Trimalchio" retells Petronius's
epic poem from the "Satyricon" for a
twenty-first century audience. Using the imagery
of high-fashion, cinema, lifestyle magazines,
and luxury design, "The Feast of Trimalchio"
is an Olympic-sized orgy of wealth and pleasure.

Bernadette Van Gelder [Amsterdam]

The prime specialisation of Van Gelder is traditional
Indian jewellery. The collection consists of jewellery
set with a large variety of fine gems, pearls
and decorated with different enamel techniques.
A second field well represented by Van Gelder
are South Sea Baroque Pearls of exceptional size
and quality. The pearls are drilled at our own
workshop where they are fitted at the client´s
individual requirements."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 No.17 Michael Goedhuis &
Amy Barclay

"Michael Goedhuis

Michael Goedhuis opened Michael Goedhuis Ltd in
London in 1989, inaugurating the New York space
in January 2002. Mr Goedhuis has spent two decades
specialising in early Asian art. He has now returned
to London to expand his concentration on Asia
and Europe.

The Gallery's principal activities today are the
promotion of the best Chinese contemporary art
as well as Chinese works of art from the Neolithic
period to Modern.

Amy Barclay

Administration & Communications Coordinator
at Experimenta Media Arts Melbourne Area, Australia
| Fine Art Sunday Lights presents a conversation
with the curator of Experimenta Media Arts, Amy
Barclay. Experimenta is a Melbourne based arts
festival focussing on new or innovative forms.
Barclay was previously a curator of International
Art Exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 No.18 Retpen, Baroni &
Maierhofer

"Marie Retpen [Denmark]
A designer and maker specialized in blown glass.
Her work ranges from conceptual everyday objects
to sculptural domestic installations, always with
focus on aesthetic and experimentation.

Jean-Luc Baroni [UK]

Jean-Luc Baroni belongs to the
third generation of a family of connoisseur art
dealers. The family business first opened in Paris
in 1919, and moved to Florence in 1967. In 1982,
Mr. Baroni went into a 20 years long partnership
with the eminent British firm Colnaghi. He now
works with his daughter, Novella Baroni, from
his gallery in St. James's, London. Mr. Baroni
has long been established as a specialist in fine
paintings and drawings by Old and Modern Masters.
The gallery holds regular exhibitions, produces
substantial catalogues that are fully researched
and illustrated and participates in a number of
International Art Fairs such as the Salon du Dessin
and the Master Drawings Week in London and in
New York. Alexandra Chaldecott, who worked in
the Old Master Drawings Department at Sotheby's
for more than a decade, contributes to the team.
As part of the service offered by the gallery,
Jean-Luc Baroni uses his extensive experience
to advise clients on establishing, augmenting
and maintaining their private collections.Fritz Maierhofer [Vienna]

In 1967 I was employed by Andrew Grima in London
as a goldsmith and ended up staying in England
for three years. In 1969 I was put in charge of
the ornamental watch collection for Omega at Andrew
Grima. Subsequently, I started to get interested
in working with contemporary jewellery. I was
mainly influenced by Stella Liechtenstein, Jim
Dine and Trova, but also by the many colours of
London, which contrasted with the greyness of
daily life in Vienna."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S03 No.19 Van der Ven, Bihain
& Cesare Lampronti

"Floris Van Der Ven, [Amsterdam]

Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental
Art, specialises in Asian art with an emphasis
on Chinese and Japanese export porcelain. Also
included are early bronzes and terracotta objects
dating from as early as 3000 BC as well as Chinese
works of art and colonial furniture. Sinds 2008
there is a specialist Japanese department. The
firm has sold to numerous private collectors,
decorators, museums and historic houses in the
world. Every sale should be a festive occasion,
where the client should feel happy with the object
and the sale process. We aim to provide all the
academic information with our object in a written
report. We also offer a door to door delivery
service. The client therefore buys with full confidence
and utmost convenience. The business is run from
offices in an historical building in the centre
of the medieval town of 's-Hertogenbosch.

Michael Bihain [Brussels]

Having trained as a butcher and
as a carpenter, Michaël Bihain studied interior
design at the St Luc Institute in Liège and at
the University of Hull in England. He is currently
working with companies and distribution firms
on developing furniture, jewels and accessories.
He has set up the BIHAINprod studio in London
which deals exclusively with the conception of
unique creations for private customers. Michaël
Bihain also produces some of his products such
as ‘OYON’, the first mural fruit basket. He currently
teaches furniture conception at the St Luc Institute.
His works are regularly exposed at exhibitions
in Paris, London, Milan and some of his pieces
are part of the permanent collection of the Seoul’s
Design Museum. He has been nominated for the ‘Award
Design Report’ in Milan 2007, won the ‘Help for
creation and innovation’ prize and has been chosen
to design the furniture of the British Council
in Paris.

Cesare Lampronti [Rome]

Cesare Lampronti specialises in old master paintings
since 1961 and from that period is very active
on the international scene and in auction rooms.
He has published since 1983 more than 12 catalogues
about gallery's exhibitions focusing on still-lifes,
landscapes and views of Italian and Flemish artists
from the 17th and the 18th century."

Since 1969 John Endlich's gallery is located in
the centre of Haarlem. His specialty is 17th,
18th and 19th century (mainly) Dutch silver, objects
of vertu and gold. Throughout the last four decades
he used his expertise, confidentiality and knowledge
of the (inter-)national art market to accompany
collectors in building their collection. He offers
a big selection of silver used for the interior
like candlesticks, teapots, brandy bowls, snuffboxes
etc. Over the past 25 years, he sold important
objects to renowned museums such as the Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam. His son Dick joined in 2002 to provide
for continuity in the future.

Friedrich Otto Schmidt [Vienna]

Friedrich Otto Schmidt, a company that has specialized
in planning and producing interior furnishing
as well as in the competent restoration and reproduction
of old furniture, is located at the sumptuous
rooms of Palais Chotek. According to the company's
tradition, furniture of all periods has been manufactured
since 1853. The company "Friedrich Otto Schmidt"
was founded in 1853 and is run by the fifth generation
of the family. At the turn of the century, the
brothers Max and Otto Schmidt cultivated friendly
relations with many renowned artists. Outstandingly
succesfull was the cooperation with Adolf Loos,
who designed furnishing such as the famous "Elephant's
Trunk Table". Since 1891, the company has
been located at Palais Chotek. The modern workshops
are situated in the garden of the building.

A La Vieille Russie [NY]

Mark Schafer

A La Vieille Russie specialises in European and
American antique jewellery , gold snuffboxes,
and objets de vertu. Goldsmith and jeweller Carl
Fabergé was a client, and today we are recognized
as international experts on his works. A La Vieille
Russie also deals in Russian decorative arts,
including silver, porcelain and enamel, as well
as Russian paintings and icons. We maintain a
strong exhibition schedule, including the seminal
500-piece loan exhibition of Fabergé in 1983.
A La Vieille Russie was founded in Kiev, moved
to Paris at the time of the Russian Revolution,
and ultimately to New York."

DESIGN & DECORATION Series 2 [15x26min episodes]

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep1 Sevres Porcelain Manufactory

David
Cameo

The
Sèvres company was founded in 1738.[1] In 1740,
the Vincennes manufactory was created, with the
support of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour. In
1756, the factory moved to Sèvres, near Madame
de Pompadour's Bellevue Palace. This new building,
130 meters longer, was built between 1753 to 1756
with Lindet as architect. It became a royal factory
in 1759. Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis served
as artistic director of the Vincennes porcelain
manufactory and its successor at Sèvres from 1748
to his death in 1774. Louis-Simon Boizot was director
between 1774 and 1800; Alexandre Brogniart director
between 1800 to 1847; and Henri Victor Regnault
director beginning in 1854.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep2 Sergio Riva DILMOS, Colnaghi

DILMOS
Sergio Riva

Dilmos
was founded in 1980 as an exhibition space for
designer furniture. The articles selected were
intended to be the most representative examples
of modern design, side by side with furniture
made by firms representing the contemporary style
of the eighties. There was also an area for holding
exhibitions and the result was that Dilmos started
interacting more directly with the world of design,
personally choosing which designers to work with
and their articles. This commitment was the fruit
of a growing awareness of the value and poetical
significance of objects: a profound interest that
led Dilmos to deal essentially with articles distinguished
by a strong communicative and narrative force.
Since 1985, when an exhibition dedicated to Alessandro
Mendini was held, Dilmos has increasingly tended
to choose designers and articles that fully express
a philosophy where each piece of furniture is
a representation and at the same time a key to
the designerÌs deeper thoughts, a way of communicating
and interacting with the world. Hence an object
that communicates and not merely functional but
not just a symbolic object-subject, a mute emblem
of our hyper-communicating society either: this
is the aim of DilmosÌs research, which is constantly
working, debating and striving to outdo itself.
No uniform stylistic design can be seen in the
articles found at Dilmos; the consistency cannot
be seen in the designers whose work has been displayed
over these years but rather in the interactions
and the mutual desire to treat the articles animating
a home or a space as elements that virtually receive
its thoughts and, through their great narrative
ability, transmit its poetry and intentions. The
languages of the designers are therefore many,
because the gestures and thoughts of each one
are many, but that does not mean that they are
incommunicable. This is the thinking behind some
of Dilmos Ìs experiences while working to make
it possible for languages and poetries to communicate
with each other.

COLNAGHI
Jeremy Howard

If
Paul Colnaghi had emigrated to America in 1783,
as Benjamin Franklin advised him to do, London
would be without one of its oldest and most celebrated
Galleries. Instead, Colnaghi went to work for
Anthony Torre, whose father had established businesses
in Paris and London. Anthony Torre's London premises
enjoyed a reputation for stocking the finest wares
of celebrated engravers. When Paul Colnaghi joined
him in 1783, they soon moved to a superior address
at 132 Pall Mall, and by 1788 the younger Colnaghi
had taken control of the business. Paul Colnaghi
was to raise the small business to a status unsurpassed
in the art-dealing world. There were difficulties
in the beginning; as a result of the French Revolution
and the ensuing disorders, trade with the Continent
suffered. Colnaghi, however, managed to weather
the storm by a series of adroit moves. During
1792-1797, he published what is probably the most
famous series of English stipple engravings, The
Cries of London. At the same time he began to
issue engravings of military, naval and patriotic
heroes. For instance, on November 7, 1803, when
news of Nelson's victory and death at Trafalgar
reached London, Colnaghi had already commissioned
a portrait engraving. Paul Colnaghi's connections
with Europe, his knowledge of languages, and his
integrity in business were all of great help to
him during this turbulent period. He was able
to supply the Government with views of beleaguered
towns on the Continent, thus providing information
for the besieging armies which would otherwise
have been lacking.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep3 Paola Colombari, Bentley
& Skinner

BENTLEY
& SKINNER Mark Evans

Bentley
& Skinner, Jewellers by Royal Appointment
to both Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, have between them been buying
and selling the loveliest jewellery for over 180
years Recently, Bentley & Skinner was charged
with producing the DAMIAN HIRST skull which sold
at Auction for over $100million - making it the
most valuable pieces of modern sculpture.

PAOLA
COLOMBARI

Paola
Colombari is the daughter of the oldest antique-dealer
dynasties of northern Italy. Paola co-founded
with her sister Rossella her first gallery in
1981 in Turin., for approximately ten years the
Gallery concentrated on the research of twentieth
century design, actively participating in the
development of modern collecting, with particular
attention to the study and promotion of the famous
architect from Turin Carlo Mollino. In 1989 the
Colombari sisters opened their first Galleries
in Milan and divided it into two branches: the
Gallery of Contemporary Art and Avant-garde Design
curated by Paola Colombari and the Mid-Century
Design Gallery curated by Rossella Colombari.At
this juncture, Paola Colombari, an innovative
and multi-disciplinary figure, decided to branch
away from her long experience with mid-century
design and veer towards the experimentation of
new post-modernist trends with the foundation
in 1991 of the brand EDIZIONI GALLERIA COLOMBARI
dedicated to the production of Art Design furnitures
designed by important Italian and international
designers such as: Karim Rashid, Antonio Cagianelli,
David Palterer, Garouste & Bonetti, Yaacov Kaufman,
Pawel Grunert , Riccardo Dalisi, Luca Sacchetti,
Joanna Lyle and has also collaborated with historical
designers such as Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass,
Andrea Branzi, Mario Bellini, Bob Wilson, and
Ron Arad. In 1994, the Galleria began the production
of the series “Homage to Carlo Mollino”, with
the reproduction of seminal pieces of the architect’s
ouevre. In 1990, collaborations with important
international galleries and museums were also
launched (including the Musée des Arts Décoratifs,
Montréal, Canada - KunsterKolonie Museum, Darmstadt,
Germany - Museum of Gent and Oostende, Belgium
- Kulturring StadtGallerie, Sundern - Museum of
Contemporary Art, Castle of Warsaw, Poland). Colombari
also organized exhibitions dedicated to the work
of Carlo Mollino for the Istituto Italiano di
Cultura, such as the Paris exhibition in 2000
and then in Amsterdam and Brussels in 2001.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep4 Haughton, Lalaounis Museum

HAUGHTON
ANTIQUES Brian Haughton

Brian
Haughton is one of the world's leading dealers
in antique ceramics and organiser of six of the
most important, influential and prestigious fine
art and antiques fairs in the international art
market. His gallery, Brian Haughton Gallery (founded
1964), specialising in 18th and early 19th century
English and continental pottery and porcelain
is conveniently located in the heart of London's
West End at 15 Duke Street, St. James's, London
SW1Y 6DB, U.K. His other important role is as
organiser of six premier international fine art
and antique fairs held annually in New York, London
and Dubai: Art and Antiques Dubai in February
(Dubai), The International Asian Art Fair in March
(New York), The International Fine Art Fair in
May (New York), The International Ceramics Fair
& Seminar in June (London), The International
Art+Design Fair and the International Fine Art
and Antique Dealers Show in October (New York).
He is an exhibitor at The International Fine Art
and Antique Dealers Show (New York), The International
Ceramics Fair and Seminar (London) and at Art
and Antiques Dubai (Dubai).

LALAOUNIS
MUSEUM Joanna Lalaounis

"A
piece of jewelry carries a message, has a story
to tell . . . It is jewelry with a soul". Ilias
Lalaounis, a fourth generation jeweler, has become
renowned for creating luxurious gold jewelry steeped
in history. Lalaounis creations represent a synthesis
of past and present, a unique interpretation of
ancient civilisation or culture translated into
a modern idiom. Influences as diverse as the Neolithic
age, Mycenaean art, the Byzantine era, pre-Columbian
architecture as well as science and nature, have
all inspired the Lalaounis collections.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep5 Daum, Patrizzi

DAUM
Sophie Le Tanneur

Daum
is a crystal studio based in Nancy, France, founded
in 1878 by Jean Daum[1] (1825–1885). His sons,
Auguste Daum (1853–1909) and Antonin Daum (1864–1931),
oversaw its growth during the burgeoning Art Nouveau
period. Currently Daum is the only commercial
crystal manufacturer employing the pâte de verre
(glass paste) process for art glass and crystal
sculptures, a technique in which crushed glass
is packed into a refractory mould and then fused
in a kiln.[2] During the Universal Exhibition
of 1900 Daum was awarded a ‘Grand Prix’ medal.
Daum glass became more elaborate, acid etching
(by Jacques Gruber) was often combined with carving,
enamelling and engraving on a single piece of
glass to produce creative glass master-pieces.[citation
needed] The most complicated creations also feature
applied glass elements, such as handles and ornamental
motifs in naturalistic forms. The Daum brothers
quickly moved on to become one of the major forces
in the Art Nouveau movement, seriously rivalling
Gallé, so much so that when Émile Gallé died in
1904 they became the leaders in the field of decorative
glass.[citation needed] In 1906 Daum revived pâte
de verre (glass paste), an ancient Egyptian method
of glass casting, developing the method so that
by the 1930s Daum's window panels used pâte de
verre for richness instead of leaded or painted
glass.[3] Today Daum still used this method to
produce their pieces.

PATRIZZI
& CO Osvaldo Patrizzi

Veteran
watch auctioneer Osvaldo Patrizzi looked set to
change the way buyers and sellers did business
in the saleroom. Having controversially parted
company with Antiquorum, the company he founded
during the 1970s and of which he served as chairman
and CEO for more than 30 years, Mr Patrizzi established
a new, eponymous house with an ambitious plan.
Patrizzi & Co offered a “fresh auction approach”
that was going to be “simple, fun and efficacious”.
The sales would break new ground in several ways,
most notably by not charging buyer’s premium (the
amount added to the hammer price of every item
sold) with the money being made up by dispensing
with expensive-to-produce paper catalogues in
favour of digital versions. In addition, massive
numbers of lots would be offered in a short space
of time in several concurrent auctions at which
buyers could bid in the saleroom, by telephone
or in real time via the internet. Other “firsts”
included a five-year guarantee of authenticity
on every lot sold and the option for vendors to
sell watches to Patrizzi & Co outright or to consign
them for sale for a guaranteed amount, on the
basis that the difference between the reserve
price and the eventual selling price would be
split between vendor and auction house.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep6 Tingo Milan, Peter Finer

TINGO
- Daniele
Lorenzon - Milan

Offering
some of the most unique objects from superstar
Italian designers

Peter
& Redmond Finer

After
a short period working at Sothey's in London,
Peter Finer started dealing on his own account
in 1967. 'Over the years I have met many interesting
people in places far and wide. Whether it be in
the store room of the Arms and Armour Department
of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, or in an
antique shop in a back street of Montevideo, the
common denominator of all Arms and Armour aficionados
is enthusiasm. The most difficult part of dealing
is assembling a collection of extraordinary objects
that are fresh to the market - collecting that
represents thousands of miles of travelling and
many hours of negotiating, often with extremely
reluctant vendors. Collecting Arms and Armour
can give life long satisfaction - there is always
something new to learn and something else to buy!
My greatest pleasure is to build a collection
for a particular client. This can include everything,
from advice on acquisition or disposal, to conservation,
display and cataloguing. I already have some clients
with whom I have dealt for over twenty years,
their varied collections are, to some degree,
my collections.'

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep7 Wartski, Bernard Dulon

WARTSKI
Geoffrey Munn

Wartski
is a family owned firm of art and antique dealers,
specialising in fine jewellery, gold boxes and
works by Fabergé. The firm was founded in North
Wales in 1865 by Morris Wartski, maternal great-grandfather
of the present day Chairman. The business thrived
under the patronage of King Edward VII and a colourful
clientele including the Marquis of Anglesey known
as the 'dancing Marquis' with his penchant for
emerald set ping-pong shirts, and the nocturnal
Mr Blair who questioned the spirits in his walled
garden before deciding on a purchase.

BERNARD
DULON Bernard Dulon

African
Art . After a master in ethnology at Paris VII
university rather than doing fieldwork Bernard
Dulon decides to follow his passion for objects,
inherited from his father -a great collector;
he opens his first gallery in Saint Germain des
Prés where the primitive art trade is already
blooming when he is only 24. After moving several
times for a larger space, he finally settles at
his present address, 10 rue Jacques Callot.His
ever growing knowledge buttressed by a permanently
enriched reference library added to his deep sense
of the object rapidly enable him to join the very
exclusive club of the great primitive art dealers
and to gain their respect and confidence. In 1985
he becomes a member of the Compagnie Nationale
des Experts, he is also a member of the Syndicat
National des Antiquaires, and in 1988 he is appointed
assessor of the Commission de Conciliation et
d’Expertise Douanière. He is regularly called
in for several prestigious auction sales (Bellier,
Berjonneau, Bégué…) and a member of the expertise
commission of the main shows but he does not limit
his activity to what he would consider a confinement.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep8 Jean Lupu, Phoenix Antiques,

JEAN
LUPU

Jean
Lupu

French
Period

PHOENIX
ANTIQUITIES

Hichaam
Aboutam

Antiquities

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep9 Tambaran Polynesian Art,
Bernard Steinitz

TAMBARAN

Maureen
Zarember

African,
Polynesian Tribal Art

STEINITZ
& SONS

Bernard
Steinitz

French
Period

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep10 Jean-Marie Rossi, Georg
Jensen,

AVELINE

Jean-Marie
Rossi

French
Period

GEORG
JENSEN

Ulrich
Garde Due

Founded
in Denmark in 1904, Georg Jensen's jewellery and
watches have always represented uncompromising
craftsmanship combined with timeless design. Its
pure, elegant design style is favoured by millions
around the world and it is often quoted as one
of Scandinavia's most recognised luxury brands.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep11 Axel Vervoordt, Carlo
Orsi

AXEL
VERVOORDT - Brussels

Interiors
& Rare Collectibles

ORSI
GALLERIES - Milan

Rennaisance
Antiques

Carlo Orsi

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep12 Stuart Pianos

STUART
& SONS PIANOS - Wayne
Stuart

Wayne
Stuart's love of the piano and his interests in
technical and mechanical structures, culminated
in a clear vision from a young age - to become
a piano maker. Stuart studied piano technology
at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and undertook
postgraduate studies in both Japan and Europe
with leading piano manufacturers. In 1983 Stuart
developed and implemented a national training
course for piano technicians at The North Melbourne
Institute of Technical and Further Education.
Over the following decade Stuart pursued detailed
research and development which led to the building
of the upright and concert grand prototypes. The
piano project was re-located to the University
of Newcastle in 1995 and was run as a research
and development initiative of the University's
Faculty of Music. Since 2001 the company has traded
under Piano Australia Pty Ltd and is a partnership
between Albert Investments Pty Ltd and Stuart
and Sons Terra Australis Pty Ltd. This unique
arrangement has inspired and enabled the construction
of over 50 large grand pianos, the most pianos
ever handcrafted by an individual Australian maker.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep13 Goulandris Cycladic
Art Museum

MUSEUM
OF CYCLADIC ART - Nickos
Stampolitis

Nicholas
and Dolly Goulandris started collecting archaeological
objects at the beginning of the ‘60s, after being
granted official permission by the Greek state.
The collection soon became renowned among scholars
because of its exquisite and rare Cycladic objects
(marble figurines and vessels), which were published
by Prof. Christos Doumas in 1968. The collection
was first presented at the Benaki Museum in 1978.
Between 1979 and 1983 it traveled to major museums
and galleries around the globe: the National Gallery
of Washington in 1979, the Museum of Western Art
at Tokyo and Kyoto in 1980, the Houston Museum
of Fine Arts in 1981, the Musees Royaux d’Art
et d’Histoire and the Palais des Beaux Arts at
at Brussels in 1982, the British Museum at London
in 1983 and the Grand Palais at Paris in 1983.
In recent years, Cycladic objects from the N.P.
Goulandris Collection have been presented at the
Museo Nacional – Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in
Madrid (1999), A few years ago, an exhibition
of the collection was inaugurated by the President
of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias in
the Musei Capitolini in Rome (2006). In 2008 the
Museum of Cycladic Art was invited for the Olympics
in Beijing to present the Cycladic Collection
in the Beijing Art Museum, Imperial City in the
Chinese capital. Recently, an archaeological exhibition
entitled: Across-The Cyclades and Western Anatolia
during the 3rd millennium B.C. was organised in
collaboration with the National Archaeological
Museum and the Sakip Sabanci Museum at the latter
in Istanbul.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S02 ep14 Werner Nekes, Anne Lahumiere

EYES
LIES & ILLUSIONS Werner Nekkes

Antique
Projection & Film equipment exhibition.

Eyes,
Lies & Illusions contains more than 500 historic
objects, books, prints, instruments and optical
ephemera drawn from the Werner Nekes Collection.
This extraordinary collection began in the mid-sixties
when Nekes, a German experimental filmmaker and
professor, started collecting examples of optical
phenomena as teaching aids. The Nekes Collection
has since grown to become one of the world's most
important and encyclopaedic private collections
of pre-cinematic media, housing more than 20,000
objects.

LAHUMIERE
GALLERY Geometric Art

Anne
and Jean-Claude Lahumière founded Galerie Lahumière
in 1963. After 25 years staying next to the Parc
Monceau in the 17th arrondissement from Paris,
they moved to an 18th century building in the
heart of the historic Marais district, a stone’s
throw from the Picasso Museum. The gallery participated
in the emergence of the first international art
fairs in cities such as Basel, Paris, Cologne,
and Chicago. In the past forty-five years, the
gallery has attended at an average of five fairs
per year. From 1993 to 2004 Anne was president
of the French association of art galleries (CPGA).
In 1999, she was elected president of the European
Federation of Art Gallery Associations for three
years, later she was part of the Conseil des Ventes
(organization of control for the auctioneers in
France) during four years. Since many years, Galerie
Lahumière has strengthened its commitment to geometric
and “constructed” abstraction. It represents not
only historic artists within this movement — Cahn,
Dewasne, Gorin, Herbin, Legros, Magnelli, and
Vasarely — but also contemporary and vanguard
artists such as Bauduin, Bézie, Bodde, Coignet,
Dubreuil, Gasquet, Jacquier-Stajnowicz, Perrot,
Pondruel, Popet, Prosi and Stempfel. “More and
more,” say the Lahumières, “our role involves
mounting educational exhibitions, reinforcing
the image of little-known artists. We feel that
the concept of ‘constructed’ art is still consistently
creative at the start of this new millennium despite
the development and constant rejuvenation of the
art scene, convincing us of our commitment. The
gallery puts its weight behind every work. Our
criterion of quality is simple –- we ask whether
a work has a place in our own collection, and
at that point we can sell it to a collector.”

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep15 Gerard Vaughan, Michel
Bernardaud

NATIONAL
GALLERY VICTORIA Gerard Vaughan

At
Oxford University, where Vaughan researched a
doctorate on neo-classical taste, he was offered
a job in the vice-chancellor's office that turned
into a $1 billion fund-raising campaign. It led
to a job running the British Museum's development
trust for five years from 1994, then the NGV top
job, which has included opening a second complex,
the Ian Potter Centre, at Federation Square in
2002. Despite being responsible for a collection
that is already huge, with more than 70,000 artworks,
and worth about $3.5 billion, Vaughan is eager
to buy more. ''For the first 50 years [after the
Alfred Felton bequest in 1904], we were one of
the major acquiring institutions in the world,''
he says. But during the 1950s, the NGV's buying
power declined as the bequest income stagnated
under a conservative investment policy and prices
shot up in the international art market. Now,
with the support of private-sector philanthropy,
Vaughan believes the NGV is again punching above
its weight. ''We are regularly buying the kind
of great masterpieces that were common in the
early years of the Felton bequest.'' Indeed, one
of his favourite quotes about the importance of
money comes from the diary of Fenton, the wealthy
Melbourne entrepreneur whose bequest has bought
more than 15,000 of the NGV's works: ''Money?
What's the point? Get it spent, do something useful.''

BERNARDAUD
Michael Bernardaud

The story of French porcelain begins in 1768 when
a woman from the village of Saint-Yrieix La Perche
near Limoges discovers a soft, white clay that
she uses to bleach her household linens. Experts
would identify this substance as kaolin: the crucial,
long sought after ingredient that is responsible
for the resiliency, durability and flawless iridescent
translucency of fine porcelain. The search for
this “secret ingredient” had lasted four centuries
since Marco Polo’s discovery of Chinese porcelain.
The discovery of kaolin in France marked the birth
of industrial and cultural significance of Limoges
porcelain. Against this historical backdrop two
enterprising industrialists, noticing an increase
in consumer use of porcelain dinner services,
open a factory in Limoges in 1863. The construction
of railroad lines in the area offered means of
distribution of their product to more markets.
A workshop apprentice named Léonard Bernardaud
distinguished himself among the workers. Twenty
years later, he would be promoted to head of sales
and later named partner. Léonard Bernardaud acquired
the company in 1900 and gave it his name. He increased
production capacity of the factory and opened
up new markets, notably in the United States.
Leonard was succeeded by his sons, Jacques and
Michel Bernardaud. The brothers would assure the
viability of the company during the turbulence
of the Great Depression and World War II through
collaborations with artists to expand the company's
range of collections. In 1949, they boldly introduced
the first gas-fueled tunnel kiln in France that
operated 24 hours a day. This “green initiative”
ensured constant firing temperatures that yielded
sturdier pieces in greater quantity with fewer
defects. As a result, industrial scale production
was achieved without compromise to the high standards
of craftsmanship based on artisan techniques for
which the company is known.

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DESIGN & DECORATION Series 1 [16x26min episodes]

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep1 Wardle, Baroni, Puiforcat

MELBOURNE

John Wardle - ARCHITECT Award-winning Australian
Architect.

I will often talk to my staff about how forgiving
the building process is, because it is so slow.
As long as you are on a site and looking creatively
rather than looking for defects, you realise there
is still an enormous potential even in the act
of construction to further revise and develop
some of your ideas.

LONDON Luca Baroni - Colnaghi - One ofthe most important
dealers in Old Master paintings in the world.

When I see work of others that moves me, I feel fantastic
- you get that kind of feeling and I think, I'm
sure, the fact that it makes you feel really alive
is very important, very important because you
want to know that, and you don't feel that all
the time.

PARIS Michel Lombard - Puiforcat - Paris

France's oldest silver tableware and holloware producers
[now owned by Hermes] produces the most exquisite
silver cutlery in the world - still by hand.

"

To desire, you have to be seduced. Seduction is a
blend, a mixture of different things - historical
background, quality, it's alchemy as we say in
French - it's not something rational."

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep2 Patridge, Gordon, Garcia

"

LONDON Frank Partridge - French Period Antiques

You see French furniture, they had a court at Versaille
and people were all competing with the king and
competing with each other. Now in England the
wealthy were buying for their stately homes which
were out in the country. And as a result they
were buying to use the pieces of furniture, not
to show it off to all their friends.

Glass is a very hard medium to master and it is very
frustrating at the beginning. The more you work
with it, the more determined you are that you
have to master this glass and it sucks you in.

PARIS Jacques Garcia - Interior designer to the Sultan
of Brunei

The strength of the American designers is that as
they don't have their own style, they freely mix
different styles with a very personal touch. My
quest is a bit different, I try to give a modern
feel to something that is often considered old
fashioned. Today young people find the 18th century
style very much out of date. Maybe it is because
they remember the interiors of their parents who
displayed it in a old fashioned way.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep3 Bernardaud, Freeman,
Lahumiere

"

PARIS Michel Bernardaud - Limoge Porcelain

Pottery is one of the oldest industries created by
man, so yes there is production everywhere. One
of our main tasks is to keep ourselves different
not only in terms of maintaining a very, very
high quality but also of being capable of creating
new shapes, new designs that are very modern.
And one of the things we have done to be able
to do that is to work very closely with designers
or artists of our time and give them give them
free hand more or less to do whatever they feel
that should be done for Bernardaud and this is
one of our good strengths.

SYDNEY George Freeman -ex-Knoll [US] Interior Designer

I come sort of shaken from the tree of Lawrence Knoll
. Florence and Hans Knoll established Knoll in
the 40's in the United States. She studied under
Mies at RMIT, grew up with Saarinen in Cranbrooke.
Hans Knoll is German and went to the U.S. in the
40's and established a furniture company and they
met and she organised that the furniture that
they would manufacture was designed by her contemporaries
- Montoya, Saarinen, Van Der Rohr, Rissem...

PARIS Anne Lahumiere - Modern Art Dealer

This is the worst part of my business. I hate it
when they come and they come full of hope, they
want you to look at their pictures, they want
you to see what they do, they want some… I mean
some are more prudent than others, they say, "I
would like some advice" and then you start out
and advise that you can tell them how terrible
it is.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep4 Lalique, Hempel, Moatti

"PARIS
Gerard Tavenas - Lalique - Handcrafted Glass &
Jewellery

Rene
Lalique is an artist like Renoir, Monet, Modigliani
or Matiste. And it's the only example of the success
of an artist who becomes an industrialist. He
started his life with the jewellery after studying
in England for 2 years between the age of 16 and
18. When he came back to France he started to
design for people like Cartier or Boucheron ,
but immediately he felt that those brands were
not prepared to the modernity of his vision of
the jewellery. He was very inspired by the Japanese,
by the nature and especially by what I will call
the insects for instance locusts and he created
a what we call a fantasmagorical world.

LONDON
Anouska Hempel - This British design powerhouse
includesfashion, interiors and now commercial
spaces [for Van Cleef& Arpels etc...] in her repertoire.

I
thought if you could dress a 4 poster bed, you
could probably sort of have more fun with something
that moved around a bit. It is part of a lifestyle
and architectural lifestyle is something that
I am really all about, at the end of the day without
realising. It has something to do with fashion,
food, gardens, it is a mixture of what your life
it about.

PARIS
Emmanuel Moatti - Old Masters Art Dealer

When you show a picture to an Italian expert, he
says Oh it is too reserved it must be French.
Then you show it to a Northern specialist and
he says oh it is too light, it is too easy on
the subject, it must be French. So it is a kind
of a combination of a certain Northern Rigors
and then the Italian Brio.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep5 Stefanidis, Orsi, Gemelli

"

LONDON John Stefanidis - Superstar Interior designer
- currently working on Architect I. M . Pei’s
only London commission.

The references are the space and above all the client.
Usually it is the fulfillment of an aspiration
and the creativity that they are entrusting to
us. They might themselves be very creative, but
not have the time.

MILAN Carlo Orsi - Renaissance Period furniture and
art dealer.

After the Pope, the Vatican was a great collector
and they asked for religious art mainly, and Italy
again is different because in Naples the Borbola
family, that was again the Farnese great sponsors
of art. Up north the Gonzaga, the Trevuzio lots
of very important families who were patrons of
art. In Rome again even the great family like
Colonna, Corsini, Pignatelli, those were great
collectors…

I always knew I wanted to be an artist, at the age
of 14 I had decided that it offered liberty. It
offered liberty of mind, it offered liberty of
socialisation, it offered liberty of all sorts
of things, and there was no retirement and I was
aware that all other forms of work, seemed to
be retiring or you would retire from it or it
was always removed from your life. It was continuity
of your life and it afforded me an opportunity
to learn more about yourself. All through my art
career I have been interested in colour. In the
70's I was much more within a figurative tonal
range of colour but once I realised that when
I played complementary colour, I could make it
dance.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep6 Dalva Antiques, Frescobaldi,
Grainger

"

NEW YORK David & Leon Dalva - Antiques supplier to
the White House. Three generations ofan American
French Period Antique dynasty.

The French Period furniture making industry was analogous
to NASA. When this was made, very, very smart
people were making it. It had the people who did
this in the eighteenth century are designing computers,
are at Mercedes Benz engineering, no one would
be able to pay what these things would have to
be worth if you had people doing it today.

MILAN Angelica Frescobaldi - Italo-British Interior
Design.

The trend is not to fill up houses as much. If I
am thinking of a house, I am thinking of a structure
and since I've absorbed the Renaissance with all
the proportions, the symmetry, the dimensions
of the windows and how much light there should
be and how high the ceiling has to be in proportion
to the width and the length of the room, I can
create a shell which has a nice harmony itself
before you fill it up.

SYDNEY David Grainger – DESIGN – “Bang”design supremo.

Good design fills the spirit. It is a way of having
more than a 2 dimensional life, you have a multi
dimensional life, there is meaning in everything.
It is like music. Why listen to this particular
song? Because it speaks to you.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep7 Molyneux, Licciardi,
Tajan

"

NEW YORK Juan-Pablo Molyneaux - Interior designer
to multi-billionaires

I am a reporter, I am an observer, I can remove physically
from all the places that I leave the best, put
it together and make it work.

People who have made a lot of money are very intelligent,
and people who are very intelligent are also very
quick. People come here, we work, and sometimes
they leave as a different person.

SYDNEY Joseph Licciardi – INTERIORS- the washplane/glass
evolution

I was exposed to these different paradigms and philosophies,
all very valid but sometimes absolutely contradictory.
One was Massimo Marozzi. He was a continuous chain
smoker, continuos ristretto coffee drinker. Massimo
believed in throw away things and I have never
been confortable with that idea. But then he taught
me another lesson. Hardly anybody washes today
with collected water which started me thinking
about flat areas which is going back centuries
to the Greek and Roman times.

PARIS Francois Tajan - Paris’answer to Christies
& Sothebys.

The Galleries, the Contemporary Art Galleries are
so important because they are following the work
of an artist, the understanding it, they are organising
exhibitions, they are make catalogues, and I think
what artists has to be initially and then after
2, 3,4 or 5 years then it will become the right
time for him to be in an auction house

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep8 Christofle, Buatta, Foster

"

PARIS Albert Bouilhet, CHRISTOFLE.

We were trying to get Salvador Dali to design flatware
for us. And I must tell you that the show that
this man managed to put was something out of this
world.

NEW YORK Mario Buatta - The "Prince ofChintz"…

There is a very great level of, new money that doesn't
know how to live, doesn't really know how to live
with things, they have nothing to bring with them
to the job and so you have to create a background
for them. I inherited nothing. Everything I have
is what I have bought. Unfortunately living in
America, and particularly in New York, we have
such small spaces you don't have a chance to do
all the things you like to do with the things
you have collected so you end up putting them
in storage. It is a sickness you know. Collecting
is a sickness.

SYDNEY Robert Foster - Award-winning industrial artist.

I feel like I am always on the edge and when I see
a new object or the way that it has been made
or the combination of the two which is usually
the way things are , I go, "I had that idea".

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep9 Lupu, Wirdnam, Pierre
Frey

"

PARIS Jean Lupu - French Period Antiques

Everything that concerns art, you have to be sensitive
but not sensible. What is striking with art is
that you are working with inanimate, dead materials
and with these materials you almost create life.

MELBOURNE Nick Wirdnam – GLASS – ex-UK internationally
Glass-Sculptor

You can see some unbelievable technique that you
think gosh isn't that wonderful, isn't that amazing.
But it is not a case of just picking up a pipe
and doing it, you know it will take you 4 or 5
or 6 or 10 years or a lifetime to perfect it.
Whilst it is fluid, whilst it is workable, it
is moving - often people describe glass making
a little bit like a bull fight - you tease it,
you prod it, and you get to know it, but it always
does something unexpected.

You know, very often I have a friend, I meet for
business and he wants to invite me for dinner,
" Come and see what I did with your fabric. You
will love it". And you have to say, "Oh my God,
it's so nice". And sometimes it is terrible.

We were founded by the Prince elect of Bavaria, the
house of the Royal Bavarian family. We have this
tradition of working and producing for 254 years
without interruption, the porcelain of all the
periods starting with the Rococo Period, the classicism
period to the Art Nouveau.

First of all when you make love with a woman , do
you do it for yourself?. With art it is the same,
you first buy it for you, to enjoy your life,
to enjoy your talent and you make one or two that
is fantastic as a new object because it is part
of the discovery afterwards two or three days,
it is put aside and…

I was taught by George Ingham at the Canberra school
of art. I would do the absolute best I could do
and think I had this most special thing, and bring
it over and say 'Check this out', and then he
would strip you down and you would go home feeling
'Ohhhh I'm broken!' But you would come back the
next day and he would lift you to understand the
importance of detail, the refinement, not to stop
to think 'that will do'. Burn it and start again
and get it perfect. [ awarded a prize by Philippe
Stark]

It is really easy to design for people like Rupert
Murdoch, Karl Largerfeld, and Mark Jacob because
they have a strong personality and a strong idea
of what they want. They know my work and we work
to combine my philosophy with their space. I met
Calvin Klein once or twice and we work mainly
by fax. He writes me a letter, asking questions
and I reply 'O.K. This yes, this no, etc'.

MELBOURNE Ashka – SCULPTOR – “alternative”granite
sculptures

I really liked working with a material that was really
hard like granite, where after I hit the chisel
and hammer into it, it just bounces back and there
is a little dot, and you have put your whole energy
into it.

PARIS Jean-Marie Rossi - Frustrated Modern Art dealer
who finds the most eclectic, one-of-a-kind period
antiques that redefine the notion of period antiques

A good piece of art, you don't like it at the beginning.
The creator is disturbing you, you don't like
it. Cezane is not so pleasant than the followers
because his works are a bit difficult, but he
is the master. After a while when you see Cezane
,you do better than Cezane you add some red some
white some yellow it is more pleasant but it is
not as important.

I am looking at what it feels to be an occupant of
a space, a transition between inside and out.
It is so subtle that in many cases it almost does
not exist and also you have this extension of
space out into something beyond, whether it be
a view, a courtyard or a landscape.

MILAN Franco Maria Ricci is both a bibliophile and
publisher ofrare and exotic magazines about ART.

It was very, very strange because in the field of
art, which means beauty, no? The magazine was
really, really bad. So I decided to do a magazine,
for me it must be the first in the world for the
quality dedicated only to the emotion that art
gives.

I always say that I choose my artist through the
same impulse that you fall in love. You don't
know why. It's only through that you can convince
people what you are presenting is good because
you believe in it.

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep13 McBride, Bernheimer,
St Louis Paris

"

MELBOURNE Robert McBride – ARCHITECT – cutting edge
residential.

We allow each other to express ourselves and let
the other person's idea to run over over the top
of our idea. Most architects have their idea and
they don't want anyone tampering with that idea.
What we have is a kind of strange symbiosis.

It's a very complex relationship which you build
up with a painting. I try to have every painting
I buy for the first few days or weeks in my office.
If a picture really is as good as you hoped that
is should be it has to grow. Every time you look
at it it becomes even better.

PARIS Christian Blaenckart - St Louis Crystal.

How do they make the glass objects? I don't know.
I can explain it to you in terms of profit but
I don't know the magic of it.

Most
of the artists, they cannot control the talent
they have. It is an explosion inside them. Because
I know about talent, because I know about artists,
I manage somehow, like a restoration, to handle
these difficult things that they cannot handle.
So I understand that little bit. Sometimes I am
very hard with them, sometimes I am very short
with them, sometimes I am like a dictator with
them.

MELBOURNE
Andrew Parr – INTERIORS – SJB’s award winning
stylist.

People's
exposure to hospitality is alot higher today,
so they are actually wanting hospitality elements
bought back into the office environment, and vice
versa back into residential design: that it is
not just a home office, but it is also a spot
where they actually spend alot of time trying
to reinforce their lifestyle as well, so they
are actually trying to gain time back.

PARIS
Patrick Perrin- One of Paris’premiere French Period
dealers.

A Rembrandt is not a piece of art anymore, it's an
investment product. The people that are buying
impressionists paintings are not collectors. When
you pay 50 million dollars for a Picasso what
do you buy? A painting? Or an investment product?
Do you buy pleasure for 50 million dollars?

DESIGN
& DECORATION S01 ep15 Karl Kemp, Glen Murkutt,
DAUM

"

NEW YORK Karl Kemp - Mr Biedermeyer

I was at a house last night where a man just finished
his new quarters and they were so stunningly beautiful.
It radiated the owner, the owner was in heaven
- you could feel it.

SYDNEY Glen Murkutt Internationally awarded architect

I have very great questions about what is creativity.
I think that it is a process not a result. For
example we didn't create the atomic bomb, we discovered
the factors that made the bomb. Gehry's Bilbao
is a path of discovery. It had the potential to
exist, he sought its existence. He made a path
to that existence. Art is discovery. Creativity
is the most misused word. I see a person is able
to discover and has the process and the wherewithall
to discover the existence of something that wasn't
obvious previously.

PARIS Henri de Quatrebarbes - DAUM - Glass & Crystal

It is very difficult to work with an artist who has
very strong feelings because a good artist wants
to try everything and I remember when we were
working with Cesar he was asking so many things
that he was just disrupting everything.

Real talent is a mix. It has very much to do with
who they are inside. Do they have a very strong
nature. Can they take a terrible risk, can they
take a terrible failure. Can they accept that
the major lady on earth who may be the one who
writes in Herald Tribune decides your collection
is very poor, and what happens in your house because
you did not make it that time. Can you live without
a lot of money? Can you wait for things to come
to you? Can you be patient? Not selling your name
partly or completely. It is as important as talent.

PARIS Didier Aaron - Art & French Period Dealer

What you must do if you buy art - the only important
thing - you must buy what you like. People visit
the gallery here, in one minute; I know whether
they have a good eye or they are nothing. Everybody
thinks they see but sometimes they see nothing
- that they will never accept

A country like Italy wouldn'be be pioneers of design
still today, if they didn't persue different benchmarks
all the time but the majority have reached their
comfort zone. Whereas here in Australia I think
we are not constrained so much with tradition,
here in Australia we are able to be more adventurous
with our ideas.